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EU wants to turn ISPs into copyright cops
BUREAUCRATIC GRAVY TRAIN riders at the European Commission believe that the best way to stop online copyright infringement is by making ISPs do it for the media cartels.
According to an early document seen by Reuters, the EC will push internet service providers (ISPs) further up the ranks of the so-called 'anti-piracy' army, and will ask them to police their systems for any such activity.
The document, which is dated mid-April, says, "The Commission will propose amendments to the [intellectual property rights] (IPR) Enforcement Directive in order to create a framework allowing, in particular, combating infringements of IPRs via the internet more effectively...."
"These amendments should tackle the infringements at their source and, to that end, foster cooperation of intermediaries, such as internet service providers."
Reuters expects the EC to publish some more formal information tomorrow, on Tuesday, and added that this will come from the Internal Markets Commissioner, Michel Barnier.
The EC apparently expects that cutting down on copyright infringement will be revealed as the solution to all the world's ills, such as falling revenues at the supposedly starving media content companies and a weakening employment market. µ
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That will be some law. Would love see the text of that bit.
"it's illegal to use a means of connecting to the internet which is not directly linked to the ISP?"
bye bye routers.
or
"it's illegal to use encryption"
bye bye htpps
Not any time real soon.
If people start using VPN it will quickly become illegal for individuals, and companies already filter what their employees can do anyway.
The only real solution is to boycott Hollywood shit movies and music so they really starve to death.
If i had money i'd invest it in VPN providers. That's going to be booming business.Now that l2tp/ipsec is standard supported in W7 i'd be very curious how an ISP is going to decipher a l2tp/ipsec 256 bit SSL tunnel.
Bollox!!
They do what american majors dictate them.
They want to control everyone.
Everything Internet-related these days is being treated like nothing has ever been treated in real life, simply because it is possible.
DRM that takes control of your PC, invasive marketing, lying and cheating about software abilities and liabilities, all this could never happen in the real world.
Do you think BMW tries to stop car owners from modding their cars ? BMW doesn't even pretend that the car belongs to them, and that's a purchase well over $100 thousand !
And for a measly $30 CD, we get controls and Big Brother and lawyers telling us we don't "own" that sliver of plastic, we just have the "license" to listen to the content !
ENOUGH ALREADY !
Drug traffickers use cars to transport their goods, and I don't see Ford, Porsche or Toyota installing cameras and drug detectors and telling me what I can do with my car.
Let's get real, people. LEAVE MY ISP ALONE !
I do NOT agree to having yet another slice of the industry devoted to safeguarding the media cartel's revenue stream with no benefit to me.
If ISPs are to be bothered, have them filter spam - THAT will benefit the general public, ie me.
ISPs need to do their part...? Funny, I don't see automobile manufacturers "doing their part" to cut down on vehicle usage in bank robberies. I don't see telephone companies "doing their part" do cut down on crank calls, threatening phone calls, prostitution, (insert your favor crime here.) I don't see gun manufacturers "doing their part" to cut down on armed robberies, murders, home invasions, etc.
So really, why should ISPs be singled out?
Maybe European law lets that sort of thing happen, but US law says that those claiming copyright infringement need to prove their case in a court of law, not get the government to order ISP's (a third party) to do police work for them. This is not Red China or North Korea...yet.
ISPs need to do their part to reduce piracy. ISPs profit from facilitation of illegal distribution of copyright protected materials. A proper filtering system would go a long ways to reducing illegal distribution.