PIPCU and IACC respond to concern over “shadowy” RogueBlock anti-counterfeiting collaboration

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has voiced concern over a collaboration between the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) and the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) to take down websites selling counterfeits through the RogueBlock programme. In separate responses to World Trademark Review, PIPCU and the IACC have expanded on the parameters of the collaboration.