Comments on: IFPI Fails to Force ISPs to Become Anti-Piracy Enforcers

By: 4cfe54bb9e0f

4cfe54bb9e0f — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:20:28 +0000

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By: Michael Hackson

Michael Hackson — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:35:12 +0000

If the movie and music industry won’t stop subverting all those political prostitutes in the European, US and other parliaments to sell the fundamental rights of their constituents to the highest bidder, then I will surely continue to boycott them. These greedy bastards try to destroy the free Internet just to maintain their ridicules profit margins. To hell with them…

By: allenB

allenB — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:11:17 +0000

Umm, not sure that what the EFF says should be taken as fact. They are a lobbying organisation too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:32:17 +0000

lol check this out
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080124.WBmingram20080124165521/WBStory/WBmingram

All in all, probably not that surprising a response, given that the IFPI is the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — a reactionary response from a body whose name harkens back to the earliest days of recorded sound, when discs played at 78rpm and weighed about a pound each.

By: _sleeps_with_fishes_

_sleeps_with_fishes_ — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:41:42 +0000

Thanks anon, but I saw that :0)

I was more into the likes of larger media outlets, you know, not that there is nothing wrong with the “truth” of boingboing – just to get 2nd, 3rd, etc versions of this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:52:54 +0000

@42 is this what your after?
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/22/proposal-to-extend-e.html

By: _sleeps_with_fishes_

_sleeps_with_fishes_ — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:54:05 +0000

Still no linkage to anything valid regarding this. Am I just too stupid to not find the news on this or are you people into crying wolf a lot?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:37:08 +0000

I think something like this is actually happening in Australia in a month…

By: anon

anon — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:28:00 +0000

US copyright suck major buttholes!!!

Why do you think they can’t come up with any good material for their movies? The Ring anyone? Ju-on, One missed call. They had to go to Asia and buy remake rights for new material. I guess they got tired of reusing their stock storylines.

By: Punk

Punk — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:25:01 +0000

I think I’m gonna renew my eff membership. lol they are one of the very few who kick the shit out of these bastards.

By: Bolton

Bolton — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:36:48 +0000

@LoL. I think he was be sarcastic my friend. ;)

By: LoL

LoL — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:53:41 +0000

@Cameron, On what fucking planet do you live?

My parents dont even come near your 15 mil per year.
How fucking dare you do act like you are poor with 15 mil per year.

People are dying because they got no food and no water and you bitch about 15 milion a year… Get a life.

By: Yatti

Yatti — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:44:26 +0000

[quote comment="269526"]This is great news, it is time to update copyrights not extend them![/quote]

Nuff Said!…

By: VolucrisAquila

VolucrisAquila — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:36:56 +0000

I am fully aware that no country, or continent, is perfect. However, I do have to give a lot of credit to the European politicians. They really debate the issues, and bring in the voice of “Nobel Prize Economist winners” into the forum of their discourse, and debates. I find the European politician to be more cultured, and educated in their speech and decisions. However, our North American politicians leaves a lot to be desired. I am actually an American, in the American soil, and have to say that our so-called politicians, very few–if any–have any culture. The majority of our North American politicians make deci$ion$ based on how much money they can get from lobbyi$t$ in Congress. It’s a shame that our American politicians can hardly have a cultured conversation, except on how much money they can get for their political campaigns. And, of course, the Corporate lobbyists jump into the opportunity of “legally” bribing the politicians into making decisions that they themselves don’t even understand the ramifications. That’s what apparently we call Democracy, here in the USA. (Don’t take me wrong. I really love living in the US. However, the major detractors of Democracy are the politicians themselves and their petty decisions that affects the whole country.
If what I am reading regarding the European Parliament’s decision on the ISPs and File-Sharing is true, I am very happy for the Europeans.

By: tech

tech — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:50:09 +0000

@25 “Crandom”

If you think BT ( or any other ISP for that matter) doesn’t keep logs of dynamic IP addr allocation, you are plain silly.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:14:14 +0000

Great news!

Filtering and Blocking internet content? What are they thinking? That every country will shit on it`s constitution to protect incomes of some bastards?

By: Google

Google — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:51:41 +0000

I Think Ä°t is very good information... Webmaster

By: Cameron

Cameron — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:49:08 +0000

I’m disappointed. I can’t survive on my royalties any more from all this piracy.

My income has been halved. I’m only earing a maximum of $15 million per year now and finding if very hard to survive.

You are all thieves. I’m struggling to feed my family now.

If my income falls much more i’ll be on the streets with the bums.

By: TD123

TD123 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:16:12 +0000

US should stop fucking with other countries… seriously, its not their country, if Europe doesn’t want to increase its actions to fight back piracy then let them be… holy fuck….

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:29:28 +0000

Good news, great news. Screw metalica
and Bono dl 4 life!

By: PILLPOPPER

PILLPOPPER — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:37:00 +0000

Artist like Madonna etc wont be living in a cardboard box anytime soon if we all download her latest album. :)
Thas my 2 cents worth.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:35:22 +0000

Let’s See If i dont get to download, i don’t need an expensive plan. I’ll just go with the basic plan. What the hell. I’ll just remove my internet. Everybody does that for just a month. The ISP’s will gladly remove the block.!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:22:45 +0000

This is great news. Anything that keeps Europe from being like America is.

By: Crandom

Crandom — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:51 +0000

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.

By: Pistol

Pistol — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:46:00 +0000

@ Elliott99

lol, forgiven :P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:23:44 +0000

I am proud to be EU citizen

By: beatlehead

beatlehead — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:49:38 +0000

I concur that this is shocking to finally see some good news.

Cheers Internet!

By: w0mb4t

w0mb4t — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:18:04 +0000

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 :)

By: Mr.Afghanistan

Mr.Afghanistan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:48:03 +0000

Great News !
Torrentfreak always making my day :)

Thanks TF.

My fav bittorrent news info site :)

By: _sleeps_with_fishes_

_sleeps_with_fishes_ — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:09:51 +0000

@ 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.

By: trawlerman

trawlerman — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:41:38 +0000

@16,
be patient, not a doctor, it doesn’t become you

By: Rycon

Rycon — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:31:21 +0000

What is that I smell? … PWNT TOASTED.

By: _sleeps_with_fishes_

_sleeps_with_fishes_ — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:16:54 +0000

Links, anyone?

Yours,
Dr Stupid

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:52 +0000

We don’t like lobbying here in Europe. Thank fuck.

By: Norway FTW!

Norway FTW! — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:00:19 +0000

Wii :D
Great!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:40 +0000

Finally European parliament back to their senses hehe

By: MaggieMaggieMaggie

MaggieMaggieMaggie — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:45:55 +0000

Brussels has reacted to US style corporate lobbying in a Reganesque manner, by just saying NO!, NON!,NIEN!,NR!,Î‘PLÎ¸!,NAO!, etc, etc..

By: Santa

Santa — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:36:37 +0000

The EU did something GOOD for a change? I must be high.

By: Elliott99

Elliott99 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:33:02 +0000

ahh, sorry everyone!

I was a little hung over, but after rereading this article…

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!

By: FUCKERS

FUCKERS — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:26:43 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH YOU WILL NEVER WIN! File-Sharing is not stealing, it’s SHARING you idiots!

By: _sleeps_with_fishes_

_sleeps_with_fishes_ — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:11:04 +0000

@ author:

Any sources in any EU media to verify this? English or German or Finnish preferred :0)

Just curious.

By: Pastry Fiend

Pastry Fiend — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:55:49 +0000

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.

By: OrbitaL

OrbitaL — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:50:37 +0000

Elliott99 either you are from the IFPI or you are a bit slow on the uptake…how can it not be good?

By: TotalWimp

TotalWimp — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:50:19 +0000

Awesome!

By: \Pantonamia

\Pantonamia — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:38:32 +0000

@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 donÂ´t understand?

By: Elliott99

Elliott99 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:29:46 +0000

How can you stay that its good!

By: \Pantonamia

\Pantonamia — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:29:22 +0000

Yes it is. Who also want the ISP as the police of the internet!?? Not me i can say :-)

/Pantonamia

By: fantastic

fantastic — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:14:57 +0000

This is great news, it is time to update copyrights not extend them!