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The [URL=http://www.iipa.com/]International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)[/URL] has issued its annual Special 301 Report to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) outlining its take on the state of international piracy.

IIPA members include the [URL=http://www.theesa.com/]Entertainment Software Association (ESA)[/URL], [URL=http://www.mpaa.org/]Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)[/URL], [URL=http://www.bsa.org/]Business Software Alliance (BSA)[/URL] and [URL=http://www.riaa.com/]Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)[/URL].

The report identified 35 countries as hotspots for piracy, including Canada. It was recommended that Canada remain on the Priority Watch List as it “stands virtually alone among developed economies in the OECD (and far behind many developing countries) in failing to bring its laws into compliance with the global minimum world standards embodied in those Treaties.” It was also suggested that Mexico be added to the Priority List, as, "A mixture of legislative deficiencies and a lack of consistent, deterrent enforcement have made Canada and Mexico piracy havens."

Spain, which is already on the list, should be placed under “close scrutiny” according to the IIPA as “Enforcement in the online environment is made more difficult as a consequence of Spain’s Attorney General issuing a circular that decriminalizes infringements that occur via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. “

Brazil was also a target of the report, with a recommendation that the country be kept on the Watch List due to increasing piracy and the “lack of an effective legal or practical framework for addressing it.”

Also mentioned in the report was a study done by the ESA into illegal downloading practices. In December of 2009 the group tracked 200 member-published titles across P2P. It was estimated that 9.78 million downloads of the games in question were completed over the timeframe.

The full list of countries on the Priority Watch List are: Argentina, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Mexico, China, Philippines and Russian Federation. Remaining lists, as well as individual reports for countries, [URL=http://www.iipa.com/2010_SPEC301_TOC.htm]can be viewed here[/URL].

Countries on the USTR Watch List risk being on the receiving end of sanctions imposed by the USTR.

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