3rd AEPOC European Anti-Piracy Symposium, London 22nd November 2005

3rd AEPOC European Anti-Piracy Symposium, London 22nd November 2005

BRUSSELS and LONDON, November 16/PRNewswire/ --

- Invitation to Free of Charge Conference

- Rights Protection in the Content Everywhere Environment: Can we Meet
the New Security Challenge?

- Tuesday, 22nd November 2005 - Le Meridien Hotel Piccadilly, London -
From 10.00 am for 10.30 until 2.00 pm, Followed by Lunch

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Content everywhere is becoming a reality in European and worldwide media
markets. The ubiquity of digital content distribution bears fascinating
opportunities for the industry - while piracy must still be seen as the No.1
obstacle in successfully building new businesses or completing existing ones.

During its 3rd Annual European Anti-Piracy Symposium, AEPOC will present
an overview of salient achievements and actions against piracy of
audio-visual services - and discuss new challenges especially in regards to
opportunities and threats from Internet-based businesses such as IPTV. On
Tuesday, 22nd November AEPOC President Jean Grenier welcomes Vice President
Luc Perrault of North-American partner association CASST (Coalition Against
Satellite Signal Theft) and Raymond Leinster Director General of UK's FACT
(Federation Against Copyright Theft). Speakers and panellists will further
include AEPOC members from all sectors of the digital value chain. The agenda
will be completed by specialist guest speakers giving valuable insight into
the European scenarios.

The Symposium will be moderated by Jeremy Thompson, anchor presenter of
Sky News, and Nick Snow, Chief Editor of Euromedia, discussing with AEPOC
members and other key personalities. The free of charge conference is
targeted at professionals and press from the media industries and shall
provide an in-depth discussion forum for stakeholders from both the
broadcasting and telecommunication sector in order to recognize the right
steps against arising new forms of audio-visual piracy.

AEPOC would be delighted to welcome you.

Yours faithfully,

Davide Rossi

Secretary General AEPOC

Note: Thank you for confirming your attendance by email to
info@susbauer.de in order to guarantee your admittance. For any personal
assistance and further information please contact Susbauer PR, Johannes
Fuxjäger; j.fuxjaeger@susbauer.de ; Tel. +49-221-120-123.

The venue is Le Meridien Hotel Piccadilly, 21 Piccadilly, London, W1J
0BH, United Kingdom. For more information please visit the hotel's website
www.piccadilly.lemeridien.com

About AEPOC:

AEPOC (www.aepoc.org) is the "Association Européenne pour la Protection
des OEuvres et Services Cryptés" or the "European Association for the
Protection of Encrypted Works and Services". AEPOC started its activities in
1995. Its current membership consists of 35 leading digital television and
telecommunication companies including TV channels, conditional access
providers, providers of transmission infrastructures and manufacturers of
related hardware. AEPOC's goal is to eliminate the pirating of encrypted
works and services and to encourage the development of the appropriate legal,
operational and technological frameworks to increase the security and
safeguarding of conditional access systems for Pay-TV, TV-based and IP
services.

The AEPOC members are: ADD Europe, ALlMajd, Aston, Atmel, BSkyB, Canal+,
Canal+ Polska, comvenient, Conax, Digiturk, Eutelsat, Humax, Hutro, Infineon
Technologies, Irdeto, Liberty Global Europe, Motorola, Nagravision, NDS,
Nokia, NTV-Plus, Opentech, Pace, Philips, Premiere, Sagem, SCM Microsystems,
Showtime Arabia, Sky Italia, Sogecable, Thomson, TPS, TVCabo, Viaccess -
France Telecom, and WELA Electronic.

Press Contacts:

Stefan Susbauer
Susbauer PR
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 36
D-50668 Cologne / Germany

Tel.+49-221-120-123
Fax +49-221-120-122
E-Mail: s.susbauer@susbauer.de

Davide Rossi
Secretary General AEPOC
165, avenue Louise
B-1050 Bruxelles / Belgium
E-Mail: davide.rossi@aepoc.org
http://www.aepoc.org

Source: AEPOC

Press Contacts: Stefan Susbauer, Susbauer PR, Theodor-Heuss-Ring 36, D-50668 Cologne / Germany. Tel. +49-221-120-123, Fax +49-221-120-122, E-Mail: s.susbauer@susbauer.de. Davide Rossi, Secretary General AEPOC, 165, avenue Louise, B-1050 Bruxelles / Belgium, E-Mail: davide.rossi@aepoc.org, http://www.aepoc.org

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