Film theft in the UK - Future of Copyright

Appendix vi: Glossary
AACP – Alliance Against Counterfeiting and
Piracy
AEPOC – European Association for the
Protection of Encrypted Works and Services
BAFTA – British Academy of Film and Television
Arts
BBFC – British Board of Film Classification
BPI – British Phonographic Industry
Broadband – high-speed Internet connection,
on average ten times faster than normal dial-up
connections (see below)
BSA – Business Software Alliance
BVA – British Video Association
CA Systems – Conditional Access technology
regulating viewer access to digital pay-TV
services
CGMS – Copy Generation Management
System; analogue copy-protection for DVD
Compression – technology enabling large
audio-visual or computer data files to be
digitally compacted to a smaller size, enabling
easier download/upload
Copy protection – technology designed to
prevent unauthorised copying of content
CSS – Content Scrambling System; digital copy
protection for DVD
DeCSS – software designed to disable CSS copy
protection
Dial-up – basic Internet service that uses a
simple telephone line to dial a connection to
the Internet
Download – transferring of content or data
from the Internet to a terminal (which can be a
PC, personal digital assistant, mobile phone or
some other Internet-enabled digital device)
Downresolution – downgrading of highdefinition
images during copying
DRM – Digital Rights Management; systems for
controlling access to digital content
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line; broadband
technology used in traditional copper-based
telecommunications networks. Most common
type of DSL in the UK is ADSL (asymmetric
digital subscriber line).
EFF – Electronic Frontier Foundation
ELSPA – Entertainment and Leisure Software
Publishers’ Association
FACT – Federation Against Copyright Theft
FDA – Film Distributors’ Association
HDTV – High-definition television; a television
broadcast and playback standard offering more
than twice the screen resolution of standard
television images
HRRC – Home Recording Rights Coalition
IFPI – International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry
IIPA – International Intellectual Property
Alliance
ISP – Internet Service Provider
Kbits/s – Kilobits per second; measurement of
Internet and network connection speeds
Linux – computer operating system designed to
provide PC users with a free or low cost
alternative
Mbits/s – Megabits per second; 1 Mbit/s is
equal to 1,000 Kbits/s (see Kbits/s)
MPA – Motion Picture Association
(international counterpart of the Motion
Picture Association of America)
MPAA – Motion Picture Association of America
Ofcom – UK Office of Communications
P2P Filesharing – peer-to-peer filesharing;
communications applications in which Internet
users can exchange files with each other
directly
PPV – Pay-per-view television
PVR – Personal Video Recorder; consumer
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