(30 Mar) Online Piracy: Trends and Emerging Threats by Nathan Brooks (+GAL)

Posted in Galleries, Guest Speakers, Meeting, News and Events, Rotaract. Written by Admin on March 30th, 2022

Online Piracy: Trends and Emerging Threats presentation by Mr. Nathan Brooks was the main topic of the regular meeting of Rotary Club Sofia International on 30 March 2022. The meeting started with welcoming words by the President. Then the guests introduced themselves.

Valentin, who is a Bulgarian Student in Netherlands explained about a great initiative called “Priroden”, which is an app and people can register in it any litter they encounter with description of it. Then people can organize events to clean it. Already a number of actions have been realized, which is very nice.

Then a presentation of Hristina followed about the Internal affairs – news, activities, and projects’ update followed. 

As a highlight of the evening was the induction ceremony of a new member in RC Sofia International Mr. Boyan Griffen, who has actively taken part in our club life and was kindly proposed by Mr. Rumen Russinov, who is his sponsor. After the welcoming words by the President, Mr. Russinov introduced and welcomed Boyan as well, then Boyan also shared a small speech with gratitude words.

Afterwards followed an online professional presentation by Mr. Nathan Brooks on the topic of Online Piracy: Trends and Emerging Threats. He talked about Intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets), as well as what Digital Piracy means (streaming, download, stream ripping, torrent and broadcast / IPTV). Mr. Brooks explained what is the harm of digital piracy: it’s property, tax revenue, millions / billions of investment, exposing customers to fraud and malware.

After the presentation the official part was close by the President and the fellowship continued.

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