When the movie titled "Running Turtle" was typed in and the ICOPⅡ button was clicked on, illegally copied movie files popped up in the droves. Several scenes of the movie as well as full-length movie downloads were easily available. People in attendance were in shock, gawking at those search results.
When the names of music videos of KARA, a famous girl group were typed in, all the video clips were instantly found on personal blogs, online communities, webhard (online storage) sites and P2P file-sharing sites. It was all too easy to find pirated copies.
December 16, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism unveiled the Internet police called "ICOPⅡ", which is an all-in-one solution to track music and video clips posted without the consent of copyright holders.
At the ICOPⅡ premiere, held at President Hotel Seoul by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Kim Sang-Jin, head of the technology research team at the state-run Copyright Protection Center said, "ICOPⅡ detects 45,000 cases of copyright infringement a day. In other words, it is doing a job that would otherwise require 135 monitoring agents. "ICOPⅡ can prevent the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials in a more precise and swift manner.
The Copyright Protection Center will be at the forefront of rooting out copyright infringements." said Lee Kyung-Yoon, head of the Copyright Protection Center.
