Ecuador. The Agency for regulation and control of Telecommunications, Arcotel, recalled that the Organic Integral Criminal Code -COIP-, establishes a penalty of one to three years in prison, for those who do not have an enabling title to provide, offer or market a telecommunications service. This criminal offence is independent of the technology used to provide the service.
"In our country, to provide a telecommunications service it is essential to have an authorization from the State, which consists of an enabling title granted by Arcotel, once the applicant complies with the requirements set forth in the "Regulation to grant Enabling Titles for services of the General Telecommunications Regime and frequencies of the radio spectrum", highlighted the entity.
The television contents that are offered through the so-called IPTVo television systems with Internet protocol, are generally stored without the consent of their creators or those who acquire the rights to be able to use them, an aspect that in Ecuador violates Article 234 of the Organic Integral Penal Code (COIP), which punishes up to five years in prison to those who access a telecommunications system in an unauthorized manner, in addition to the criminal penalties derived from the illegal use of content as protected works.
The provision of a telecommunications service without authorization or the use of content without owning the rights to them, constitute illegal practices combated by the country's control institutions.
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