Overview

- Conduct objective analyses on digital evidence and promote scientific and advanced copyright investigations to respond to intellectualized and diversified methods of digital copyright infringement

Cooperation in Digital Copyright Infringement Forensics

Key content
  • Collaborate with the Special Judicial Police under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in copyright infringement forensics in order to respond preemptively to digital copyright infringements

※What Is Digital Copyright Infringement Forensics?
A series of processes for investigating, collecting, transferring, storing, analyzing and reporting with regard to digital storage devices involved in copyright infringement cases according to standardized procedures and methods to ensure that the relevant data may carry legal status as digital evidence

What is Digital Copyright Infringement Forensics?

A series of processes for investigating, collecting, transferring, storing, analyzing and reporting on standardized procedures and methods to ensure that the data possess the legal capacity as digital evidence for digital storage devices of copyright infringement cases.

Procedures for digital forensics

Procedures for digital forensics

  1. 1. Preliminary investigation

    • - Identify copyright infringement cases
    • - Collect materials including screenshots
    • - Locate server locations
    • - Identify the operator
  2. 2. Collection of digital evidence

    • - Duplicate and image the disk
    • - Seize specific items
    • - Dump the database
    • - Prepare a hash certificate
  3. 3. Transfer of digital evidence

    • - Package devices to shield from electromagnetic waves and impact
    • - Seal the evidence
    • - Transfer the evidence
  4. 4. Analysis on digital evidence

    • - Recover the data
    • - Analyze the database
    • - Analyze the source codes
    • - Analyze logs and timelines
  5. 5. Report on digital evidence

    • - Review the analysis process
    • - Verify the analysis results
    • - Calculate copyright infringement damages
    • - Write the analysis report
  6. 6. Destruction of digital evidence

    • - Return or destroy the digital storage devices
    • - Wipe the hard disk and memory
Scope of digital forensic support
  • Special OSPs

    Confirm whether online data storage services are implementing technological measures and investigate the distribution and heavy uploaders of non-affiliated copyrighted works

  • Torrent

    Specify the first distributor of seed files and analyze illegal distribution through ICOP-T

  • Streaming link websites

    Track the IPs of embedded links and investigate and analyze advertisement websites (pornography, gambling, etc.)

  • Private game servers

    Identify private game servers and analyze their illegality through the analysis of their modification and alteration history

  • Others

    Research current status and analyze evidence regarding illegal distribution of offline works (books, game consoles, R4 chips, etc.)