IFPI Fails to Force ISPs to Become Anti-Piracy Enforcers
Written by enigmax on January 22, 2008The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has been lobbying politicians of the European Parliament to force ISP’s to identify, filter, block and remove copyright infringing content from the Internet. Now, according to an early report, it appears that all three anti-piracy measures have been defeated.
The IFPI has been hard at work in its attempts to lobby members of the European Parliament to introduce legislation which would force ISPs to take extreme measures to fight piracy. They suggested that ISPs should start to filter infringing content, block access to websites such as The Pirate Bay, and block filesharing protocols, no matter what they’re being used for.
In addition the IFPI was also looking for an extension of copyright, supposedly to help artists whose works will fall into the public domain in their lifetime, which is great for the artist but bad for culture. The extension was said to try and bring Europe closer to the protections available in the United States.
According to Danny OBrien at the EFF, the extensions wouldn’t make any sense: “..five Nobel-prize winning economists concluded that “copyright term extension is unjustified both as a protection to current artists (who rarely earn much from far future extensions), or as an economic positive for society as a whole. Yet the music industry, fearful of losing tight control of its own back catalog, still continues to advocate for more copyright, no matter the cost.”
Now, in what will be a huge blow to the IFPI, Danny O’Brien says that the proposals have been defeated.
He says: “Just got word from the European Parliament all three of the filtering/copyright extension amendments were defeated or withdrawn in the committee vote. We’re still waiting on the official record, but if that’s true, it’s an amazing victory — one was originally proposed by the original author of the report, Guy Bono himself, one was voted in by the powerful industry committee, and one was drafted by an EPP-ED member, the largest bloc in the parliament.”
In December we reported that the IFPI had already convinced several European politicians to support the proposals. However, The Committee on Culture and Education from the European parliament made a wise decision not to turn the proposed amendments into European policy.
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This is great news, it is time to update copyrights not extend them!
Yes it is. Who also want the ISP as the police of the internet!?? Not me i can say :-)
/Pantonamia
How can you stay that its good!
@Elliott99
“Now, in what will be a huge blow to the IFPI, Danny O’Brien says that the proposals have been defeated.”
What is it that you don´t understand?
Awesome!
Elliott99 either you are from the IFPI or you are a bit slow on the uptake…how can it not be good?
sounds like the start of a slew of wins. Now if only we could get people to be as reasonable here in the United States.
@ author:
Any sources in any EU media to verify this? English or German or Finnish preferred :0)
Just curious.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH YOU WILL NEVER WIN! File-Sharing is not stealing, it’s SHARING you idiots!
ahh, sorry everyone!
I was a little hung over, but after rereading this article…
THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!
The EU did something GOOD for a change? I must be high.
Brussels has reacted to US style corporate lobbying in a Reganesque manner, by just saying NO!, NON!,NIEN!,NR!,ΑPLθ!,NAO!, etc, etc..
Finally European parliament back to their senses hehe
Wii :D
Great!
We don’t like lobbying here in Europe. Thank fuck.
Links, anyone?
Yours,
Dr Stupid
What is that I smell? … PWNT TOASTED.
@16,
be patient, not a doctor, it doesn’t become you
@ 18
OK sir, I take your word and calm down. I am more like a patient anyway. Veggie ward.
On a more serious note: Sorry for the SPAM everyone, but I am just REALLY eager to read further reports on the topic.
Great News !
Torrentfreak always making my day :)
Thanks TF.
My fav bittorrent news info site :)
This is a victory for people everywhere who enjoy the fruits of modern culture.
I agree that the failed attempts to extend the life of copyright won’t have a negative impact on artists.
This will help to make past and future classic works available to many more people as they enter the public domain, which is great news :)
I concur that this is shocking to finally see some good news.
Cheers Internet!
I am proud to be EU citizen
@ Elliott99
lol, forgiven :P
ISPs will not be able to track all the ips of their customers. BT (in England) has 16 million customers. DCHP means their ip address changes on average every 2 days. This means that even a minimum tracking system of just ip address and account number for each ip like so (27 bytes):
86.176.32.56 019364832683
would mean at least a 411Gb logfile each day, with another ~411Gb added every other day. The hardware cost would be massive and uneconomical, so this would not work.
If filesharing was stopped, legal things like vuze and BBC iPlayer wouldn’t work. So sharing is good.
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