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IIPA Reports BitTorrent Sites and Cyberlockers To US Government

The IIPA, which counts major entertainment groups such as the MPAA and RIAA among its members, has listed many BitTorrent and cyberlocker services in its latest submission to the USTR. Hong Kong based Megaupload neighbor Filesonic is listed as an “infringing distribution hub” while Pirate Bay, isoHunt, Demonoid and others get notable mentions.

The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has just published its written submission to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative listing countries that it believes should be identified in the annual Special 301, the report that details the “adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection of intellectual property rights.”

The IIPA, which counts the Association of American Publishers, BSA, ESA, Independent Film & Television Alliance, MPAA, National Music Publishers’ Association, and the RIAA among its members, has listed its grievances against a whole host of countries.

Unsurprisingly, especially given its members’ focus, the main complaints concern movie, music, video game and software piracy. The complaints about infringement in the digital realm are numerous.

From the Priority Watch List, the file-sharing focus falls on Canada, China, Russia and Ukraine.

Canada

According to the IIPA, Canada is “a haven where technologically sophisticated international piracy organizations can operate with virtual impunity in the online marketplace.” This is due, says the group, due to Canada’s reputation for having “weak, ineffective or non-existent” laws to outlaw infringement.

The IIPA notes correctly that Canada plays host to large numbers of BitTorrent sites including perhaps its most famous, isoHunt. The group says that the site has “operated with impunity” for more than 8 years despite being the subject of an injunction issued by a U.S. court. Of course, by definition the U.S. is outside Canadian jurisdiction

Other major torrent sites mentioned as having “Canadian connections” include KickAssTorrents and Torrentz.eu. It’s also noted that many French language torrent sites are operated from Quebec.

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Canada takes in 2012
Establish clear liability and effective remedies against those who operate illicit file-sharing services, or whose actions are otherwise directed to promoting infringement.

Enact strong legal incentives for Internet Service Providers to cooperate with copyright owners in combating online piracy, including by limiting the scope of liability safe harbors in accordance with international best practices.

China

The IIPA lists the main sources of online piracy as music portal sites, P2P services, deep-linking services (aka search engines), forums/blogs and cyberlockers. File-sharing client Xunlei and other services offered by its operators are mentioned several times.

Generally the situation in China has improved over the last 12 months with the IIPA noting that major P2P sites have “cleaned up” their pirated content. Illicit streaming services are described as problematic, as is the increase in consumption of illicit content via cellphones.

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends China takes in 2012

The requests are many, but notably include increasing criminal prosecutions for services such as Xunlei and ‘deep-linking’ search engine operators such as Sohu/Sogou. The IIPA is also calling for China to allow foreign rights holder associations to conduct local anti-piracy investigations, and to lower the threshold for infringement to be considered criminal, to include non-profit copying.

Russia

The IIPA singles out two BitTorrent trackers as especially problematic – RUTracker.org (the renamed torrent.ru) and GameTorrent, a tracker alleged owned by a Russia national but hosted in Estonia.

According to the submission, Russia is home to the “world’s two most prolific criminal release groups” who camcord movies in local theaters and upload them to the Internet. The unnamed groups are said to have been responsible for 77 “exceptional quality” camcorded movies in 2011. A streaming video links site listed as offering such movies is the popular Video2k.tv

On the free music front, Russia’s Facebook equivalent, vKontakte, is singled out for criticism, despite apparently responding correctly to takedown demands.

“While vKontakte will generally takedown specific content when notified, that is an inappropriate enforcement mechanism for a problem of vKontakte’s own making,” the submission states.

Sites that charge a nominal amount for music, such as the numerous AllofMP3-type clones, are described as an “important source of piracy” which have grown to more than 30 in number since that site’s demise.

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Russia takes in 2012

As with China, the requests are numerous but focus on the takedown of unlicensed music streaming services and social networks (i.e vKontakte), MP3 download sites, BitTorrent trackers, and action against site operators even if their servers are outside Russian jurisdiction. IIPA also calls for changes in the law to force greater cooperation from ISPs against infringement.

Ukraine

Unsurprisingly, Demonoid.me is the focus of the IIPA’s anti-BitTorrent sentiments in Ukraine with claims that the site offers 75,000 movies and 47,000 TV shows for free. Cyberlocker EX.ua, which was raided in January but is now back online, leads the IIPA’s file-hosting complaints.

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Ukraine takes in 2012

IIPA wants Demonoid and pay-MP3 sites such as MP3Fiesta taken down by the police. Under current Ukraine law, ISPs are not responsible for the actions of their users, a situation that causes rightsholders problems say the group.

From the Watch List, the file-sharing focus falls on Italy, Spain and Switzerland.

Italy

The IIPA reports progress in Italy in recent years, citing the court-ordered ISP blockades of The Pirate Bay and the recently and voluntarily shuttered BTjunkie. Several other file-sharing sites have also been closed but IIPA says that further takedowns are being hindered by authorities not taking infringement seriously enough.

The Peppermint Jam case, which resulted in Italy’s Data Protection Authority ruling that monitoring P2P users and collecting their IP addresses is illegal, also causes problems for rightsholders.

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Italy takes in 2012

Take additional criminal actions against P2P services that meet the criteria for injunctions and liability established in the Pirate Bay decision and order ISPs to block access to those services.

Eliminate legal obstacles for rights holders to gather IP address evidence against file-sharers.

Spain

According to the IIPA, 55% of Spain’s online music piracy takes place via P2P networks such as BitTorrent, eMule and Ares, 34% via hosted websites and 11% via streaming services.

The ESA claim that there are around 30 major Spanish websites offering links to illicit copies of video games and bemoans the lack of support from local ISPs in tackling the problem. Nevertheless, since P2P linking sites have been ruled legal in Spain many times before, up to now there has been very little they can do.

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Spain takes in 2012

IIPA says that P2P really took off in 2007. It’s probably not a coincidence that in 2006 a circular from the Attorney General proclaimed the decriminalization of P2P downloads. No surprise then that IIPA wants this announcement “corrected”.

The group also wants the ability for rightsholders to bring civil and criminal actions against infringers by allowing them to obtain identifying information, and the law modified so that so that rights holder-submitted notices of infringement are capable of imparting ISPs with effective knowledge that infringement is occurring through its service without a court order.

Switzerland

The IIPA criticism of this land-locked country begins with a long-time enemy, the Razorback2 eD2K (eDonkey) indexing system which was subjected to huge raids in 2006 but later recovered. Swiss-based file-hosting giant RapidShare gets a brief mention as host of infringing content, but avoids the aggressive criticism of the past.

The main problem for the IIPA appears to concern current law.

“Since Switzerland’s copyright law contains a private copy exception with no expressly stated legal source requirement, downloading and streaming from servers operated by pirates outside Swizterland are being portrayed as legal in Switzerland by the press and anti-copyright activists, as long as there is no uploading,” the IIPA states in its report.

The IIPA also bemoans the fact that Swiss law allows DRM circumvention which taken together with the private copying exception “would allow individuals to circumvent access or copy control measures in order to copy from illegal sources and share with friends.”

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Switzerland takes in 2012

The 2010 ‘Logistep ruling‘ meant that collecting IP addresses in Switzerland with the aim of later filing a lawsuit was confirmed to be illegal and that IP addresses are personal data. IIPA would like the Data Protection Act changed to allow pursuit of infringers.

From the Special Mention List, the file-sharing focus falls on Hong Kong, former home of the now-defunct MegaUpload.

Hong Kong

Surprisingly, Megaupload isn’t mentioned at all in the IIPA submission, not even as a copyright enforcement “success story”. The same cannot be said about Filesonic, one of the world’s leading cyberlocker services.

Filesonic is among the top 10 file-sharing sites on the Internet, with a quarter billion page views a month. It disabled all 3rd party sharing in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown and actively blocks Hong Kong IP address.

None of this appears to have improved its standing with US entertainment companies. In its report the IIPA refers to Filesonic as an “infringing distribution hub” so when combined with a previous announcement by Hong Kong customs, Filesonic must be left feeling uneasy.

File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Hong Kong takes in 2012

The IIPA notes that Hong Kong is working with rightsholders to combat infringement but more must be done, including the tightening up of proposed copyright-related legislation with a particular eye on punishing repeat infringers.

Summary

The IIPA submission is long, detailed, and actually informative and objective in parts, but it’s also peppered with language, insinuations and omissions one might expect of the lobby groups involved.

In the main, countries are criticized for not having tough enough laws to support US interests and where they do they’re criticized for not enforcing them.

ISPs are being put under pressure around the globe and are either criticized for not living up to their responsibilities under the law or where they do, for not doing enough to voluntarily assist rights holders.

File-sharing sites, wherever they may be, are branded as criminal organizations. Authorities are encouraged to legislate with that in mind, sooner rather than later.

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  • Oli

    Same shit, different day

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      And the shit is getting seriously old, to the point where when I hear people spouting it, I want to reach through my monitor and throttle them…. literally.

      • Guest

        “Dear” MAFIAA and governments, you will lose the war against “piracy” aka file-sharing because that is against people’s will. Go after real criminals like banksters that ruin the lives of millions.

    • http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire

      Not really the same…
      Sweden has been taken off that list :(

      That’s horrible, we ware so proud of our country for being on that list – it was like a badge of honor but now it just means that Sweden has bent over to be rammed by the copyright MAFIAA (and probably without lube).

      Shame on you Sweden.
      - Swedish citizens in Stockholm, Sverige.

      • Anon

        This is so cool. So overdue. Game on.
        Swedish pirates have their disappointment, the free lunch is drawing to a close, but the vast majority of Swedish citizens have been constant in their sense of right and wrong through the centuries, and the rights to control so that you can sell that which you create is also consistent. Soon we’ll see who really is in the majority. Elections come around routinely.

        • http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

          Reality Anon…

          Copying is not theft….
          Copied endlessly = worthless….
          Punishment for copying worthless… is unethical and a sinister act….
          It’s OBVIOUS that corrupt US politicians are bribed to push this agenda…

          ALL YOUR MORALITY ARE BELONG TO US

        • djnforce9

          I’ve seen this exact post from you many times before and the “Free Lunch” has lived on and will continue to do so until the industry ditches the 1990′s business model of “I’m the gatekeeper for all content” and makes the purchased product more appealing than the pirated one. Until then, they are just wasting their own financial resources while making their potential customers angry in the process due to their aggressive antics.

        • Anonymous

          what free lunch?
          The one the MPAA/RIAA made by illegal price fixing for 10 years?

        • Trespass

          Get some new material, Anon….

      • Fred Slinger

        Why do the U.S. of A. think they can rule the world.

        And more importantly why do the rest of the world shake in their boots, listen to the US, obey without question, etc?

        • replying

          Because
          1ºThey have weapons of mass destruction that they don’t allow other countries to have(cause anyone with such weapons that is not US must be a terrorist, obviously).
          2ºthrough their military power they achieved the ability to cause an economic embargo in your country that will transform it in Cuba/North Korea in no time.

          But of course, soon will appear americans here telling you that is because you are a moron and vote for corrupt politicians and will try to humiliate you with expressions like “american dick” and “out of your country’s ass”.That’s how nice they are.

        • A7a

          coz they have the most money. and they’re ruled by jews (who practically holds all their money)

          go figure…..

        • Krozareq

          Because foreign countries allow American products to rule their lives and that allows the MAFIAA access. Think beyond Hollywood, folks.

        • Guest

          Because in their view, what other countries do is terrorism and what USA does is counter-terrorism.

        • Guest

          Why do you think we are communicating in english? This shows influence of USA very well.

      • http://profile.yahoo.com/5VXQPC2P5UREFPC2VL7U3NBRN4 Ice

        I use a site hosted out of sweden called dwi-tv to catch up on tv episodes that I pay for on my cable bill and have missed on TV due to being asleep when it airs because i work graveyard shifts.Should i be worried that it will go down and i will not be able to watch the content I pay for on my cable will? or should it be ok because thats where thepiratebay is hosted from?

        • Anonymous

          don’t worry, it’s a technological arms race that they can’t possibly win.
          the internet is built to resist censorship, it might be harder to find the content you want, but it will always be out there.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000164139407 Mike Thorne

          You aren’t paying you cable provider for the TV shows you watch. Only the service to bring you the channels. You pay for the TV shows by watching the commercials, I guess.

    • Kanadian

      Blame Canada! Blame Canada! South Park did it before it was cool…

      I’m Canadian and from the province of Quebec and all I have to say to IIPA is : “Eat my shorts TABARNAK” !!!

      We live in a place where cop are too busy fighting real crime to waste their time going after kids who download an episode of The Simpsons

      Back in 2007, the RCMP told reporters: “Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted” (Royal Canadian Mounted Police = Canadian FBI)

      Sauce: http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9102/rcmp_piracy_for_personal_use_is_no_longer_targeted/

    • T~shamika

      Switzerland

      The IIPA criticism of this land-locked country begins with a long-time enemy, the Razorback2 eD2K (eDonkey) indexing system which was subjected to huge raids in 2006 but later recovered.

      I didn’t know razorbackII recovered and never read about them coming back online or seeing them either. A strange thing however today happened after this story, there were tons of fake servers now showing up on emule. Whatever its been going on since over 5 years ago, another day, another emule user I trade with (thousand?). Emule still works great however with or without razorbackIi as it is ed2k/kad and even overnet if it still works aka dece3ntralized.

  • Anonymous

    where can I submit my report of the IIPA?

    • James

      To the US Government with your Millions of dollars bribe uhh.. donation money.

      • Chronoss2008

        so get a million friends and hand them a million and say ENOUGH we’ll pay you to tell them to fook off

      • JoJo

        “donation money” I fixed it for you

      • Anonymous

        if only i had that kind of cash lying around

  • Anonymous

    International Intellectual Property Alliance needs to DIE !

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      Agreed. They are just a cover group for the MAFIAA and no one takes them seriously in the slightest.

      • Wyrm

        They don’t need to “die”. They just have to be put back to their own place: promoting IP, not asking for dictatorial laws made for the sole purpose of saving a century-old business model.

        For that, the right move to make is towards those that vote the laws these IP holders want. We have to make them realize, a bit like what happened with SOPA, that continuous demands for harsher IP rules will not be met anymore. To that end, making the offensive would be a good idea: ask for laws that reduce rights duration, laws that recognize personnal copy and non-commercial sharing as actual rights, … Bringing them on the defensive instead of letting them erode our own rights year after year after year.
        Educating our politicians to the impact of IP on real life, teaching them of the abuse the current IP model impose on a growing part of the population… In short, explaining that enforcing IP as zero tolerance policy is more harmful than profitable to society.

  • AnonyMouse

    IIPA another acronym to add to the hitlist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000617943487 Máté Bikfalvi

    Thanks for the report. It’s always interesting to see what these guys think about your country.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000617943487 Máté Bikfalvi

      Hmm… after reading what they want from Romania…well I’m just left speechless. They want to rewrite laws, change the judicial system in their favour etc.

      The tl;dr part starts here:

      They basically think Romanian citizens have the spending power of German or UK citizens. Which is simply unrealistic and if you believe that, than you are stupid. They expect us to consume media priced for the Western economies, they just forget that compared to them, our wages are ever so small.

      Minimum wages: UK=€1200, RO=€160

      Fortunately my family is in a bit better condition, so I can usually afford things if I save up a few months, wait for sales(Steam) or use pay what you want promos(Humble Bundle and to an extent Bandcamp), but I know people, have friends that don’t have much money and they would never ever pay for a game or a DVD…heck even a film ticket(it has to be something big for them to pay).

      I assume that the MAFIAA people also think the money people don’t spend on entertainment will just rot in their bank accounts…they are wrong. The money will be spent, only in a different part of the economy. If we get more money to spend, then we’ll spend more.

      This also raises the question whether poor people should be allowed to be entertained or not. Logically I can see that content providers are at the viewpoint that they can rot in hell if they don’t pay, but punishing an already miserable person is hitting somebody who is already down. Putting a lawsuit in their necks demanding thousands of dollars is not the way. Yet this is what these content industries want, alongside total and complete monitoring of people.

      If they were already poor, what makes these guys think that they’ll be able to pay the over-exaggerated fines the MAFIAA try to push for in courts? They’ll basically bankrupt the entire family for at least two generations or more.

      They also want to abolish holographic stickers, but reading the report it says that the state taxes these. They’ll have it pretty hard to throw this out, this country likes its taxes a lot, I’m just surprised the air you breath isn’t taxed yet.

      • Anonymous

        UK minimum wage =£6.08 per hour / €7.3 per hour @ 40 hours per week = £244 per week = £1,058 per month = £12,688 per year

      • Tesla

        For what it’s worth…
        I was living in Norway in 1982-85, at that time there were only a few places where you could buy software and related books. All were seriously over priced.
        When ever I asked, I was told that the taxes are the largest part of the price.
        This is normal in Norway as they have their lovely Luxury tax.
        I eventually became an Atari dealer and as such started to import books, magazines and software for all the computer types sold in Norway.
        To my surprise I discovered that there was no tax on printed media, no tax on computer storage media other than blank media.
        Due to the fact that most countries that I was dealing with, U.K., U.S., Germany..really did not like dealing with people in other counties, mostly because of misunderstandings due to the language barrier, they did want to deal with me because I speak english and so did they.
        Over 90% of these companies actually sold me the rights to publish their software in Norway, those that didn’t actually had incredibly low prices for wholesale dealers. The rights to publish were dirt cheap, I was amazed.
        The low prices for wholesale dealership, were amazing, as in average program was below $10 per program. Varied actually from $3.00 to $25.00.
        Compared to the local dealers $40.00 to $300.00 for the same software.
        I ended up becoming the main importer and distributor and selling in my store at no more than %15 profit and thereby forced local vendors to buy from me or lose customers.
        And yes many local business’s there tried to destroy me, usually by attempting to place fake orders to my business. But I required cash first so it always failed.
        Only individuals could place orders with no cash in my case and if they failed to pick up an order, there was always someone else that wanted it. Also in my case for getting items I did not have in stock, 4 days delivery was the worst case scenario.
        My point here is that many of the local vendors like to make 100 to 500% profit when there is really no competition.
        Try doing what I did, gather your friends shopping lists and see if you can import by buying larger quantities.
        Most important, check with your import office and find out what the taxes are, as in my case all the local vendors lied to me to try to protect their own business.
        This is common practice and takes advantage of the average person big time.
        As for the statement that some companies feed you “We can’t sell to you due to licensing” is quite often a crock, but even if true, there is always another company that can help you anyway. This was true in 1985 and even more so now.
        Same stuff applies to entertainment media. There are rules, but there are ways around them when you are in another country and have the cash and say the right things..legally.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bovski Dmitri Bovski

    LOL AnonyMouse
    Anonymous fetch :) http://www.iipa.com/

    • Anonymous

      You’d think a company with so much money could have a decent looking website…

      • Kr0nZ

        No web designer wants to be affiliated with that filth

      • Kr0nZ

        No web designer wants to be affiliated with that filth

        • Anonymous

          Fair point.

  • James

    Shits me when they say “US interests”. I has nothing to do with US interests but Corporate insterests, or more to the point, thier interests.
    Lobbying should be banned. IIPA is the criminal organisation here.

    • Anonymous

      and even if it were “US interests” it just boggles my mind why the other countries don’t just say “fuck off”

      • James

        That really pisses me off actually. I would expect my countries government to tell the US to Fuck off and not interfere with our laws and people.

        • Chrislight

          Now we know how Palestine feels

  • FUCKUSA

    Who gives a fuck about the interests of USA? Screw them. Country with HUGE debt trying to tell others what is good for them. Yeah right.

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/5VXQPC2P5UREFPC2VL7U3NBRN4 Ice

      the HUGE debt is why they are trying to push copyright enforcment around the globe. They are so poor they are trying anything to grab some money.

      • Anonymous

        the IT industry that those laws destroy or cripple are many times greater than the entertainment industry

        It is just greedy cunts wanting more money for themselves

      • Ugly American

        You are right in part – the huge US debt is definitely one reason and since America has practically killed most manufacturing (by sending it to China), the fictional “Intellectual Property” industry is defended to the death. Bribes, censorship, legislation – anything to keep the last remaining monopoly strong.

        That being said, you went off the beam with this observation:
        “They are so poor they are trying anything to grab some money.”

        Don’t believe it for a second, lad – there’s plenty of wealth and it’s growing every minute. No, not for the general population – what we have in America today is a MASS redistribution of wealth which would make Marx blush: take from the poor and give to the super rich. By force. “Protecting” IP / pushing copywrong is one way. Excessive taxation is another. Unconstitutional programs and so on. It’s a long laundry list of government schemes but I won’t bore you with the tyrannical details – Google ‘em if you run out of pr0n and have nothing better to do.

        Indeed, the US government is insane if it believes America can stay competitive in a global economy by pushing overpriced DRM infested plastic discs down the world’s throat, or by bombing the living shit out of any country who doesn’t kiss Washington’s ass. It’s a recipe for national suicide and the globalists in power couldn’t be happier – think of it as corporatism on steroids with inevitable results: a rotting corpse but in excellent physical condition! <3

        The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves. America, R.I.P.

        • Anonymous

          anyone who read his Jeffersson knows at least one founding father is spinning in his grave over the concept of “IP”.

          The amusing par tis that China, albeit not believing in IP internally (making their marketplace a thriving no-holds-barred template model of what Adam Smith originally envisioned), isn’t stupid. They are right now trying to do with Intellectual Property internationally what they did with manufacturing. And they’ll succeed.

          Twenty years from now, Chinese companies will be running Apple off US markets due to owning bigger patent/design portfolios. If the west had a clue they’d start tearing up every IP treaty ever signed right now. Because what they’ve done is in essence that they’ve handed China an effective global market monopoly which goes into effect within the next two-three decades.

      • anony

        Yea, and the funny thing is that when the shoe is on the other foot with china wearing it… the us will do what it did starting out (copy everything and tell everyone else to piss off)

  • Anon

    Yeah ! There are some website i never heard about in that report ! thanks IIPA !!!!

    • Anonymous

      Same here! lol

  • maxwell elle

    all of this is just useless there is always a way

  • Crappypants

    bayfiles = hong kong = gonna get MEGAed!

  • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

    This bare-faced arrogance of the USA in producing such a Report is merely an attempt to usurp the whole concept of free trade in a free market system.

    It’s political protectionism of its own Imaginary Property ‘industries’ that have been ripping people off for decades, is the same as the Mafia practices that US law enforcement tries to bust – except this time the USA’s own government is acting like the Mafia by accepting payments from the MAFIAA.org to do their bidding.

    This corruption has to be exposed and stopped before the pai-for political puppets in the USA throw the whole World into a knowledge- and technological Dark Ages merely to feed the greed of a few Corporate Fat Cats.

    People worldwide call for the USA to return to democracy, with a fair election and political process (ie no PACs or Super-PACs), and to embrace truly open and free trade with no anti-competitive protectionism in our global economy.

    The USA is going too far, and people worldwide recognise the problems. We respectfully request those US Imaginary Property Industries to modernise their business models by embracing the inherent beauty and openness of 21st century technology and society.

    Your continued fascism is NOT acceptable.

    • Captain Buzzoverinthehead DFC

      “Imaginary Property” – /me likes.

      • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

        lol, but it is a far more accurate meaning for IP than so-called Intellectual Property ;)

        • BooBooKittyJack

          Heh, there is nothing “intellectual” about “property” which exists in delusional minds. That reminds me – where in fuck is Jack Murdock? I miss his “Reasoned” / “Neo” idiocies… <3

        • Another Brick In The Wall

          The pro-copyright crowd keeps insisting on using the word “theft” to describe the infinite sharability of non-physical goods sans profit (aka file-sharing). Therefore from this day forward, “Imaginary Property” will be the one and only proper acronym, to be used from now on whenever and wherever IP is being discussed. If we get everyone using it for long enough and often enough, it will eventually stick. It’s not only a perfectly fair assessment, it’s a very apt one as well. I wouldn’t hold my breath on true democracy, fair elections, or a properly open and free market though. Business men quietly usurped control of the US a long time ago and they’ll do whatever it takes to stay in power. After all, what else is there to do when money is of no concern? Human nature is the answer to that.

          I’m not a conspiracy nut and tend to laugh at such things more often than not, especially when the theory is way out there. Lately though I’ve been wondering if the president is just a figurehead without any real power, much like royalty. It would certainly explain a lot, especially the sheer number of unfulfilled campaign promises and how more than a few have managed to get into the oval office at all (and stay there). If there really was some secret society intent on ruling the world one day, there is little doubt it would consist of very rich businessmen and that control of the US would have been the ideal first step. More than one president has tried to warn the masses about this. One was very publicly assassinated even, so my theory may not be far fetched at all when you think about it. Even if someone manages to blow the whistle before being permanently silenced, who’d believe them? Other than the nuts I mean lol.

          Scary thoughts indeed, but on the bright side it does give we the masses a possible strategy. We work hard to place them in a position where they’re forced to choose between what has long been one of their most powerful and profitable tools (the media) versus loss of control over the masses entirely, potentially taking along with them much of the progress that has been over the past century towards the shackling of humankind. Each passing day makes the latter more likely to happen as more and more people grow up with the internet and free flow of information an integral and important part of their life. It makes one wonder, should there actually be a secret society, what they thought they would ultimately gain for themselves. I highly doubt they envisioned what it did ultimately become, and probably curse themselves often for what they must surely now see as their biggest mistake. Or perhaps they just failed to notice until it was too late to kill it. Whatever the reality is, I think it’s safe to say the internet may very well be one of mankind’s greatest creations, immortalized and remembered fondly beside all our other great creations.

          http://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/

          Nah there can’t be any conspiracy, right? It’s all in my head, an imaginative flight of fancy. I mean… if there was a secret society bent on complete global control of everything, there’d be a lot more obvious clues. Wouldn’t there? ;-)

        • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

          All the clues are there for everyone to see.

          Just join up the dots and stand back a little to see the picture that’s there ;)

        • Anonymous

          I’ve used “Imaginary Property” as a term for IP ever since I heard of it. Owning information is by exerting control over it. This is done in one way only – by keeping it a secret.

          Once everyone has access to the information in one way or another your control is completely gone. We’ve known this in the west since the invention of the printing press. China has known it for millenia.

    • Anonymous

      Its funny my country is at the top, its also funny since the site I frequent the most is run by americans, has more americans on it than any other and yet no mention of the US citizenry and their insatiable appetite for media. Incidentally Canada is currently being ruled by an american peon they have brought in Acta, they are poised to vote in a ridiculous copyright revamp written by the USA media powers and parroted by the conservatives as a made in canada solution. What more do you want, not that any of this will matter or be effective, but still we have passed all your stupid little directives and yet it still goes on, will go on and will not stop.

    • Anonymous

      The people of the world need to recognize that the government they truly serve is the US government.

      Wake up, people.

      • Hvrolk

        The US Government serve the bourgeoisie.

        • Ugly American

          Like all governments – that is why they’re in power. Puppet leaders aren’t “elected” but selected by those who have interests to protect.

          For those who Know – welcome to the Knew World (dis)Order.

    • Ugly American

      Agreed with everything you’ve said except this part:
      “People worldwide call for the USA to return to democracy”

      Fuck that idea with a rusty hydrant – yes, I understand and agree with your point but if 51% of the people are wrong, why should the other 49% who are right be subjected to the whims of the majority? As such, I’m afraid “democracy” is NOT the ideal system people believe it to be. It’s mob rule and we all know where that leads – and let’s bear in mind, America was NOT set up as a “democracy” but as a Constitutional Republic. To me, as a Libertarian, THAT is an ideal system. It’s a pity that it has been hijacked / replaced with corporatism and people, while probably well-intentioned, are calling for mob rule or some other “ism” which is nothing more than what we already have.

      “Your continued fascism is NOT acceptable.”
      Right on target – and I’m sure most American citizens would agree.

      Speaking of which… “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini

      Hmm, I wonder if Benny copywronged that… ;-)

  • Zig

    Am I wrong in believing that the US copyright groups already receive a huge wedge of cash from a levy on all blank media in Canada, whether that media is used to hold their copyrighted material or not? SO every single Canadian is paying a tax to US special interests when they buy blank CDs/DVDs and even hard drives? What else do they want them to fucking do?

    • Anonymous

      as they do in many other countries, yes.

      that really has to be reformed, remove all those levies, restrict copyright further and guarantee net neutrality and civil rights

  • Donnieb

    Welcome to Nazi Corporate America!
    youtube.com/watch?v=rvxSZ00zcyM

    • DOMNUL PULOSUL

      TARE BAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bloc-Black/100001426700526 Bloc Black

    Tango Down lulzzzz

  • Non

    Go Go all these countries
    Go Go away USA

  • http://profiles.google.com/artfulldragon TL Dragon

    Don’t recall anyone asking them what the hell they thought…

    • Anonymous

      We need to make our own report on how Copyright enforcement has abused the world during 2011.

      An easy start is DaJaz1 which was falsely censored for over a year and it was the RIAA’s Carlos Linares who messed that one up. Not only did he take advantage of ICE’s latest trusting employee fresh out of college but in about a dozen examples of infringement submitted to Court he got simply every one wrong without exception.

      Not only were all RIAA group tracks supplied lawfully to promote new artists and albums, including one direct from the manager of a record label, but Carlos Linares felt empowered enough to state infringement on Indie music tracks without even bothering to ask those artists or their labels first.

      Then lets not forget they denied the owner of DaJaz1 and his lawyer all justice and due process for a whole year as the US Government went into a secret “we don’t want anyone to know what we are doing” state using super secret extension orders that no one on this planet has seen beyond the judge who issued them and ICE’s own lawyer.

      The lawyer for DaJaz1 asked to contact the Court to state his client’s side of this story only to be directly denied by the DoJ in several examples. So Carlos Linares should certainly be fired for gross incompetence if not spend some time in jail.

      You sure have to wonder what kind of abuse this Mega case will get in the hands of the Department of Punishment?

  • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

    Another year, same nonsensical whining from the MAFIAA. Along with misinformation, biased and bogus numbers and pleads for draconian and censoring laws SOPA/PIPA or ACTA/TPP style.

    I skipped the article, nothing new to read.

  • Cool

    After fucking New Zealand and Hong Kong now they are fucking the world.

    • Fern

      And there ain’t a damn thing you can do about it. And if you try, we’ll fuck you up, thief!

      • Guest

        WTF? Are you an ignorant marine?

  • Armoreska

    hands off Ukraine & rutracker!

  • http://www.facebook.com/egnyquist Erik G. Nyquist

    And if Nations like Canada and China don’t comply with US demands, what is the US going to do? Issue trade sanctions? :p

    • Anonymous

      We can wish they would take a stand.

      They instead play a game called “raise the bar”. In other words they manage to get one country to improve their IP enforcement laws and then aim to force everyone else to meet this same level or to criticise them for not doing enough to tackle infringement.

      This is why the head of the MPAA said that SOPA like censorship is fine because it works so well in places like China and North Korea.

  • TelezarZ

    Thats completly ridiculous…..
    A LOT of countires on that list has more things to care about than IP Theft,pfff.
    Most of them are poor, countires like Thailand, Philipine can’t even recover from Typhoon and fucking big floods and the USA come here like “Hey, what about our Intellectual Property ? We dont give a fuck about what’s goin on in your country but you should care about our IP Theft !”

    And countries in Eastern Europe who are still communist minded, grew up economicaly with a mutual hate with the USA, do you really think they will cooperate with this fucking Nazi corporate countries ??

    Something strange is that Iran, Pakistan arent on that list and there are HUGE warez communities over there.

    And about China, really ??
    China simply dont give a fuck about the intellectual property rights, maily when it’s about the US, and we know this for years !!
    They just dont give a shit about them, because in some years they will be the 1st economic power in the world, and they will buy out the debt of the US and Europe
    Too bad China are a internet enemy with the stupid censorship…

    • Anonymous

      China lives a world apart. Here is an example…
      http://imgur.com/gallery/ewVOK

      • Kr0nZ

        LOL Star Fucks, -don’t have time for a hand job. Those chinese really like to pirate, they made the movie idiocracy into real life.

        • Anonymous

          I am sure that man on OFC looks like President Obama pulling an Asian face.

          Hmmm OFC = Obama Fried Chicken?

      • Anonymous

        looks like a better world

        if only it wasn’t for the political censorship it would be great

      • Krozareq

        It’s no different than back in the day in Germany and Russia. That stuff ends quickly though. Soon it will end in China as the big $ corporations get all into the pockets of the Communist party, they will have China in their pocket as well.

        • Anonymous

          Not too likely. China more or less invented capitalism 4000 years ago and they have always been a commercial nation. It keeps cracking me up how people today think China is somehow “communist” other than in name.

          China 2000 years ago: Large bureaucracy ruled by mandarins interlinked into every sector of legislation and commerce, using the emperor as sock puppet in order to enact impopular legislation. Iron hard social control and no-holds-barred capitalism/free market philosophy.

          China Today: Large bureaucracy ruled by civil servants interlinked into every sector of legislation and commerce, using the communist party as sock puppet in order to enact impopular legislation. Iron hard social control and no-holds-barred capitalism/free market philosophy.

          The impact of Mao and communism was a small and unimportant parenthesis in Chinas history and was absorbed into the common status quo just as it had absorbed every previous invader to successfully breach it’s walls.

          China knows full well information control is a dead horse and a 4000 year history of knowing that you can’t “own” ideas and information other than through extreme secrecy. That is why asian industry is steamrolling the gullible west which thinks you can pin national wealth on an industry dedicated to the idea that you have to pay to make a copy of an idea or physical goods.

          This doesn’t prevent China from amassing a patent portfolio at a far faster rate than the west – They’ve even admitted they have a similar approach to international patents as they had concerning manufacturing industry. Meaning we westerners have a very short grace period before it’s China tossing Apple and Microsoft off European and US markets due to patent law.

  • Oomg

    quote : “In the main, countries are criticized for not having tough enough laws to support US interests and where they do they’re criticized for not enforcing them.”

    well we don’t care about your U.S interest ….. get the fuck out USA we don’t want you anywhere in the world ! stay in your rotten country and stop trying to BULLY others ….

  • Guest

    Traffic

  • Popeye

    To enigmax author of this article!

    Have you actually fully read the submission from The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) sent to the U.S. Trade Representative!? This is the submission: http://www.iipa.com/pdf/2012SPEC301COVERLETTER.pdf

    I’ll quote you enigmax: ” Surprisingly, Megaupload isn’t mentioned at all in the IIPA submission, not even as a copyright enforcement “success story”. ”

    See page 6. Quote: ” MegaUpload is a one-click hosting site or ‘cyberlocker’ (with headquarters located in New Zealand) which allegedly ran a file-sharing service whereby it sold premium memberships to users in order to induce them to upload and make available millions of infringing files. The seven owners of the site were, in January 2012 subjected to criminal indictments in the United States for amassing huge profits from facilitating massive amounts of copyright infringement. ”

    Another thing…could you please point where Filesonic is mentioned?

    • Guest

      Filesonic is mentioned under the “Hong Kong” pdf.

      The IIPA submission consists of the pdf cover letter AND all the other pdf attachments. Lots of reading to go thru it all.

      • Anon-reply

        I must be blind or the search function doesn’t work. Can you point to the page where they are mentioned?

        • Guest

          The main page with links is here …
          http://www.iipa.com/2012_SPEC301_TOC.htm

          The open the “Hong Kong” pdf here …
          http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2012/2012SPEC301HONGKONG.PDF

          Then search that pdf for “Filesonic” …

          “Of course, a major focus of the entire digital environment law reform effort in Hong Kong has been a more effective response to online piracy. The problem is serious there, with high levels of music piracy taking place via “forum sites,” such as uwants.com and discuss.com.hk; infringing distribution hubs like Filesonic; and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services using protocols such as BitTorrent, eMule, and Xunlei. A critical goal for legislative reform must be to provide strong legal incentives for service providers to cooperate with right holders in order to deal with the problem. The government’s legislative approach focuses on establishing a “safe harbor,” within which service providers who take “reasonable steps to limit or stop infringement” may be immune from damages. While this is similar to how other jurisdictions have approached the problem, Hong Kong’s safe harbor proposal falls short of global best practices in some important ways.”

  • Anonymous

    The IIPA can go stick a pine-cone up its ass.

    Enact strong legal incentives for Internet Service Providers to cooperate with copyright owners in combating online piracy

    It is not an ISPs job to combat piracy any more than it is the postal system’s job to open all letters and packages looking for unlawful items.

    including by limiting the scope of liability safe harbors in accordance with international best practices

    I guess that is the “International most stupid ideas” list to harm Internet progress and innovation. Without good safe harbour laws most web 2.0 sites containing user content would not exist including YouTube and Facebook. This only goes to show they put IP enforcement before public rights and are only happy to trash alternate markets worth billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.

    but focus on the takedown of unlicensed music streaming services and social networks (i.e vKontakte)

    Taking down vKontakte Russia’s version of Facebook will be as popular as asking the United States to take down the real Facebook.

    MP3 download sites

    And Sean Parker says you can “Go fuck yourselves”

    BitTorrent trackers

    So when exactly has any person ever been convicted of running a BitTorrent tracker in any country on this planet? Lets all remember that this is “never” when there are no laws against such general data flow. Dream on IIPA when your desires sure are not found in reality.

    and action against site operators even if their servers are outside Russian jurisdiction

    Enforcement tourism now? The United States have set a bad example.

    IIPA also calls for changes in the law to force greater cooperation from ISPs against infringement

    Actually the only cooperation the ISPs will be doing is to team up to help us fight the MPAA and RIAA in every dark corner of this planet that they are hiding to ensure a free, fair and uncensored Internet which is a lot better than turning the Internet into a police states and punishing ISPs for the acts of their users.

    IIPA wants Demonoid and pay-MP3 sites such as MP3Fiesta taken down by the police

    I wish for many things as well but it does not mean I will get them.

    Under current Ukraine law, ISPs are not responsible for the actions of their users, a situation that causes rightsholders problems say the group.

    Then any rights holder who believes ISPs should be can go fuck themselves.

    Take additional criminal actions against P2P services that meet the criteria for injunctions and liability established in the Pirate Bay decision and order ISPs to block access to those services.

    So many things to say there but I will simply say DNSSEC is coming to Europe to undo your every censorship plan. Can’t lie to an honest system now can we without trying to break the security of the Internet?

    Bye bye DNS blocks You sucked while you lived and you wont be missed when soon dead.

    Eliminate legal obstacles for rights holders to gather IP address evidence against file-sharers

    So open Italy up to copyright trolling now? It is nice to see a country respect its users privacy and anonymity.

    IIPA says that P2P really took off in 2007. It’s probably not a coincidence that in 2006 a circular from the Attorney General proclaimed the decriminalization of P2P downloads. No surprise then that IIPA wants this announcement “corrected”.

    We won’t soon forget them using the American Government to force on Spain their own SOPA-like law via the US Embassy in Madrid. So much for democracy and the will of the people right?

    The group also wants the ability for rightsholders to bring civil and criminal actions against infringers by allowing them to obtain identifying information

    Police state here we come. What part of lawful downloads did they miss?

    and the law modified so that so that rights holder-submitted notices of infringement are capable of imparting ISPs with effective knowledge that infringement is occurring through its service without a court order.

    Sure bypass law and justice because no one else gives you what you want.

    The 2010 ‘Logistep ruling‘ meant that collecting IP addresses in Switzerland with the aim of later filing a lawsuit was confirmed to be illegal and that IP addresses are personal data. IIPA would like the Data Protection Act changed to allow pursuit of infringers.

    It is nice to see Switzerland put their citizen rights first. Good for them.

    And I am sure the copyright abusers can still tackle infringers just by respect their IP address as private data.

    The IIPA notes that Hong Kong is working with rightsholders to combat infringement but more must be done

    More always needs to be done until the whole population is locked up in a sales queue right?

    Well I said before Hong Kong is a highly recommended place for a business start-up and they should be very careful to not scare away the world’s next Facebook what with billions at stake.

    including the tightening up of proposed copyright-related legislation with a particular eye on punishing repeat infringers.

    But Hong Kong is so… small. One united city weighed down by vast volumes of high rise towers. I am just surprised to see the IIPA target users on a city by city basis.

    Well in these days where even the artists and production companies see that the MPAA and RIAA are only an out-of-touch hindrance to a better connected future and distribution system then here is only more lobbying bullcrap to protect the old markets from progress.

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  • Baboo

    Great story.

  • EH!

    “Online surveillance bill critics are siding with ‘child pornographers’: Vic Toews”

    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/14/online-surveillance-bill-critics-are-siding-with-child-pornographers-vic-toews/

    “Music Canada Supports Referral Of C-11 To Committee”

    http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=151092

    We’re fucked!

  • I’m 12 and what is this?

    Why is VK on that list even thought it’s just like Grooveshark? Groovey is unlicensed just like VK and VK licenses SOME of their russian singers just like Grooveshark licenses some of the USA labels like EMI.. :S

    VK should be classed as fully legal, nothing morally or legally wrong with streaming music – it’s pure bullshit for people to say otherwise – and if streamings illegal in the USA… “they should all be shot” – Jeremy Clarkson.

  • RIAAtarded

    I’m so tired of US political agendas funded by big business thinking in anyway other countries need to fall into compliance to save their dying business model. As it is they still make billions and are the only Industry repeatedly making record profits despite the global recession. It is their own self imposed limitations that have created a need for piracy. That’s right a need, you limit distribution where and when it will be released, even if it will be released at all. Then you redefine it so we no longer own the physical object we purchased but now it is a licence to use what in on that specific media and only in the described method you choose? Screw you I will do with and share what I own in any manner i see fit what I do is no different then a public library and I don’t see inmates around with an expert knowledge in the dewey decimal system.

    You’ve created your own issue by your own greed, I still buy music, movies, games, etc just not as much. Why? Mainly because as an industry their lack of regard for the consumer is appalling. Controls and price gouging is a hard pill to swallow then they have the balls to tell me how I can utilize it. I’m sorry but potential lawsuits or jail time because I downloaded a TV show when I forgot to program the DVR is insane. With how many breaks you idiots put in TV shows how the hell can the viewer keep up with the schedule to do it legitimately. Hell the walking Dead’s christmas break was the better part of 4 months. Outrageous… What if I want to rip my kids movies to throw on his PSP for a road trip to keep me sane? Why should that be illegal? You every pack the family up to go somewhere? So rather the take the game device and be done with it you want me packing DVDs and a player as well? So now if I don’t feel like that headache I should buy the same thing from you idiots twice so I have media and a digital copy? screw that…. You’re just greedy bottom line and I’m saying no to you. If that means I have to sign a million petitions and join marches I bloody well will. You nitwits don’t realize that if consumers in any industry have a negative experience they don’t tend to come back for more. What surprise me despite your shitty treatment of us all you still make insane money. 4 billion for twilight? Good lord I found the shamwow commercials more interesting.

  • Anonymous

    What.. these dumbasses didn’t figure out the US government is already aware? They did a good enough job convincing them that megupload was a terrible place, if they cant bribe the government to conduct a raid on other cyberlocker sites, they will try to sue or scare them out of existence. If you have enough money you can get the law on your side. They’ve already been paying big bucks to the Swedish government for years to get them to beef up their copyright laws so they can shut down TPB.

  • Anonymous

    so, when can every country hosting these sites expect the ‘US, Masters of the World’ to come screaming over in their droves, drop from helicopters, guns at the ready, shut down the internet, accuse those arrested of being terrorists, gangsters, money launderers etc, of trying to destroy the planet and spirit them all off, without having jurisdiction or any trial, to Gitmo then?

  • Chrislight

    From the Priority Watch List, the file-sharing focus falls on Canada, China, Russia and Ukraine.

    Does that mean you get to “Blame Canada” again.

    Makes me want to setup a fuck-you-iipa.ca torrent and cyberlocker site.

    Proud to be canadian.

  • TC

    More reports, more recommendations, more laws, less freedom. Fuck this global village. I for one have not bought any music or movies for years now and will not be doing so until online legal downloads of MP3s drop to $0.10 per track and legal movie streaming subscriptions sell for $9.99 per month for unlimited movies. Yeah, that’s how I value the entertainment industry. I hope you’re reading this RIAA and MPAA. Fuck you very much.

    • Anon

      They hold the rights to the goods you reference so pay their price, do without or be fucked very much in return. It has always been so because it’s correct to be that way. And when you create stuff the world wants then you get to control and sell it.

      You keep this up now, because we’re enjoying sticking it to you in the meantime a lot more these days.

      • AnonsMomShouldveAbortedHim

        Anon, you very much are the biggest idiot/troll on this site.

        Read the comment that you responded to. He did not say a single thing about downloading anything at all.

        He quite clearly said he has done without and has been doing so for years now. He also said he will continue to do so until prices reach reasonable levels for digital goods. (You know, digital goods that cost almost nothing to replicate.)

        God, you seriously are an idiot. I just wanted to repeat that.

        Also, we all enjoy how badly you’re sticking it to us. That sounds so wrong, fyi. We saw you attempt to do just that with SOPA and did you see what happened in return? Oh, you didn’t? Let me tell you then. We, the people, got in touch with OUR elected representatives and put them in their place. We made OUR will heard. And we shut down SOPA. Stopped it cold.

        You can enjoy whatever you want. We’ve seen all your “victories”. They’ve all been so eventful and profound and have had such disastrous effects on the planet. In fact, the only thing your “sticking it” to us has accomplished is outraged people across the globe to your actions. Thus pushing your customers even further away. All you’re doing is hurting yourselves. And you’re too stupid to see that, or better said SOOOOOO stupid that you don’t even realize you’re doing so (that or you do and don’t care).

        Either way, it’s hilarious. Trolls like you crack me up.

      • RIAAtarded

        Your ability to regulate how I use something I bought and paid for stops when you take money in exchange for it. You’re one of the few industries arrogant enough to think you should have control after the point of sale. Would be like a car manufacture dictating when and where you could drive or whether you could put on aftermarket parts or not. One’s personal enjoyment of purchased good should NEVER be criminalized or government regulate. In the end you can throw as much money at it as you like you’re only pushing your consumers farther away and those are also voters. So buy whichever politicians you like in the end they will side with us or they become unemployed. You guys even read the ACTA thread 200 cities across 4 continents and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. Those are real numbers against it and everyone a vote. My guess is you’ve been making up numbers on loses for so long that when you actually see real ones they are actually lost on you.

        • SuckerPunch

          “Would be like a car manufacture dictating when and where you could drive or whether you could put on aftermarket parts or not?”

          We may be going in that direction if the NTSB has their way.

      • Anonymous

        “You keep this up now, because we’re enjoying sticking it to you in the meantime a lot more these days.”

        You mean as in filesharing continuing to grow at a continually accelerated curve despite every futile billion-dollar effort the industry has attempted.

        If you get every legislative effort through, guess what? File sharing will continue unabated. And it will do so until the legislation makes it completely impossible for any ordinary John doe to use the internet at all.

        Then, once your legislation makes it impossible for social sites like Facebook to exist and for services like Google to even operate, you will be in the position where you have royally pissed off the ordinary public – while “pirates” by and large are the only ones still operating unencumbered.

        This is simply how communication works. You won’t be able to hit individuals using bt clients and filesharing software until well after you’ve made EVERY centralized gathering site illegal.

        You lost this war a long time ago, and the corpse of current copyright law is still twitching simply because of the extensive life support you supply it with while trying to keep it functional.

        The only people by and large you are “sticking it to” are a few entrepreneurs out to cash in and the average John doe. Not pirates and filesharers.

        You should change your nick to Baghdad Bob, “Anon”. You are even further out of touch with reality than he was.

    • Hookahtime

      Agreed, a CD cost consumers $9.99 in 1995. why should it cost the same now when the cost to copy a file is next to nothing?…I wont invest in movies on account they are gonna try to shove another media format down my throat in 2-3 years.

      The media industry fails to understand that if they do somehow manage to defeat piracy…it does not mean I will be purchasing anything, I would rather go without.

  • Anon778

    im tired of USA trying to stop piracy , look your changing the entire scope and system the internet is based on .
    Under their laws ,nearly everyone can be charged of crime .
    I seriously want to see what happens once they stop all file sharing online , I really want to see them stop all piracy in all stuff all over the internet . I would like to see their profits decline once they do that , And so will employment , Advertising , jobs , There are more websites based on user content and pirated or shared information than the entire GDP that the music , game and movie industries make .
    Lets see them destabilizing the current internet and what will be left of it in the future .This is my view of what will happen once you copyright all these music , games etc .
    1) All file websites , their staff and people become jobless , resulting in less online traffic , less advertising and also less income for domain holders .
    2) User content like Amvs of anime,or anime, or people singing songs will be banned , or their sounds will be cancelled , Since they are all copyrighted , Hence very less online entertainment.
    3) Most of the streaming sites having movies , or dramas or anime will go down .
    4) Sites with books that are copyrighted , or pictures that are copyrighted or other such similar things will go down .
    5) Games that are illegal or softwares , or free software websites will be taken down .
    6) lots and lots of people will loose jobs , all those illegal translators of content, the subbers, the website design teams, the host of services, the managers, the content hosting sites, the torrents, online talent, etc
    7)If they plan to stop copyright completely , it can have really bad consequences ….

    Why don’t they ever consider that ??

    • djnforce9

      If they manage to successfully get all these outlandish laws passed in hopes that online filesharing stops, then something innovative will likely come out to enable sharing to continue uninhibited. They’ll never get every country in the entire world on their side anyway so we’ll never be without some kind of content source.

      …Or they can fix their dead business models, make a friend of the general public again, and capitalize on the newest technology. That doesn’t seem very likely right now.
      .

      • Anonymous

        They won’t. Those of us who live in the USA and are paying attention will rise up and fight, are rising up and fighting, for the basic RIGHTS to freedoms that we believe should be “self-evident” to all people. I’m not at all proud of what the corporations and the government are doing, but I’m proud to be an American who will step up and be heard concerning the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. A revolution is coming, there is no doubt about that at all. There are many reasons, and many people. They just need that final push that is too far to get them out of their comfort zone and active. In case anyone has missed it, the US govenrment is losing the support of its citizens. We are witnessing the evolving of what will lead to a complete revolution.

  • djnforce9

    Yes, Canada has “a haven where technologically sophisticated international piracy organizations can operate with virtual impunity in the online marketplace.” because we don’t allow large corporations to sue people for outrageous amounts of money upon simple accusation using either non-existant or heavily error-prone “evidence”. Let’s keep it that way as I don’t want my country to be ruled by corporate fat pigs like the MAFIAA.

    Oh! Let’s not also forget the levy on blank media which goes to the music industry. They’ve already been paid in full so they really should shut their trap.

  • Tesla

    In regards to my previous comment..
    Don’t get me wrong, I am not against freedom of information or sharing, nor am I paid or ever would be by these crappy media corps.
    And for all I know what I was able to do in Norway, might not work worth a crap elsewhere.
    Sometimes you just have to join them to change them and thats what I did, and I did change things for the better at least for all the customers that I had, not counting the local vendors.They bought from me but were angry at my low profits that they couldn’t compete with and as I told them, its not right to profit obscenely. Sell more and you will still get your summer home paid off. greedy, greedy…..arg!

  • Krozareq

    Who’s stealing? I’m not stealing. The only movie I would pay to see in the near future is both of The Hobbit and I will pay to see them. Peter Jackson deserves every $ he makes and I hope he celebrates the release with a whole lot of high class coke whores. As for China, most of this stuff is banned in China. They have to “steal” it in order to get it. If MAFIAA is going after the Chinese citizen, they are in essence supporting the authoritarian government.

    • anonymous

      They don’t care, they just want their money

  • AnonymousAI

    “In the main, countries are criticized for not having tough enough laws to support US interests and where they do they’re criticized for not enforcing them.”
    Why do those countries have to abide by US interests? The United States does not own the internet, nor does it make the laws applied to other countries over abroad who use it. The internet is used by more than 2.1 billion people almost a third of Earth’s population. Simply the internet cannot have an overshadowing entity controlling things hundreds of millions of others use the internet differently( by laws and other reasons). Why does this seem to all apply to the united states? Just because a company, product, service or business loses money/profits others that seem to be involved have to take the blame and be forced to abide and take proper action by the losses. Crony capitalism and imperialistic order should never rule over such a universal tool—- the internet. The internet does no have owner, does not have operator and does not have a controller, only the people who use it across all over the world can control it not a bunch of companies who lose money with countries* that have ambiguous and malignant laws that “somehow” have to be applied internationally. I don’t understand why such poorly written laws/legislation still exist in such a complex world with ever expansive technology and economies. Ever since copyright and other laws like it were written and made, times have changed so much that there is no way that some of these laws don’t need to be reevaluated or rewritten.

    I would highly recommend reading this> http://questioncopyright.org/promise
    The story of the copyright is so simple but yet the way it’s applied is so complex.
    That’s why companies who lose profit whine so much, is because the laws that defend their content/work is nothing more then poorly written and ambiguous legislation. Someday maybe these companies would realize that the engine of society does not have to be ran by their fuel. Some of today’s engines may not be compatible with today’s fuels or they may not work as well. Copyright and legislation like that is that fuel. The engine is today’s changing world and tomorrows future.

  • Goosmoo

    omfg those people are so stupid. Why do they continue wasting a shit ton of money trying to get sites shut down, when they could instead do something actually productive (and more effective) such as finding ways to get people to pay for content at REASONABLE prices? Netflix has done a lot for getting people to pay for content, but they are forced to wait a few years for most movies (from what I have seen) because the movie companies want every fucking penny possible. First they want $10 movie tickets. Then they want $15-20 dvd sales. Then, after dvd sales are drying up, they will let people SOMETIMES watch the movie on netflix, but many times they won’t.

    Trying to shut down bittorrent sites and file sharing sites is a total waste of money. It’s the same as trying to kill an ant hill, one ant at a time, very slowly, with a magnifying glass. Ant hills will always be created faster than the rate at which you kill the ants, and the same is true for file sharing sites and bittorrent sites. Trying to take them down is pointless.

    What happened to file sharing after megaupload was shut down? Absolutely nothing. After oink was shut down? Nothing. After Napster was shut down? Nothing. When will the riaa/mpaa/iipa/brein learn? Never? Such a waste of money.

    To the IIPA – get your head out of your asses and do something constructive. A lot of people, such as myself, are willing to pay for content at REASONABLE prices. $10 for a movie ticket and $15-$20 for a dvd is not something I consider reasonable, thus the mpaa won’t ever get my money unless it’s an indirect payment from Netflix. And the only CDs I buy any more are those from independent artists.

    IIPA, no magnifying glass is big enough to accomplish what you want to accomplish, but it’s always amusing watching you and your affiliates try. ;)

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      They shouldn’t even be trying this…. well, police state stuff is being kind to it.

      When I see someone pushing for laws to make non-paid sharing CRIMINALLY illegal…. actually illegal in the slightest…. I see a huge problem there that can only be solved by kicking those people out of the United States, because they are as big a danger as fascists are.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/2UQHDZASWBS5BWDI33JKD2FZ6Y KonstantinS

    this summery leaves out israel which is also mentioned in report. one of few concerns regarding israel is the fact that many universities practice book piracy (photo copying books).

    FUCK YOU IIPA!

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  • bamfan5520

    This is something I need to comment on…HOW STUPID IS THE IIPA? In this reading, I stated that places such as Italy and Switzerland have made it so if any Anti-P2P or left-winged natzi of the MPAA/RIAA invade someones personal computer to collect what they are doing, they will be royally screwed since they have made collection of IP addresses and traffic flowing through their PC’s ILLEGIAL!!! In Canada, they have made P2P/Bittorrent LEGAL in every way, shape, and form no matter what you download…I have always LOVED Canada since it is the only country that can be labeled, “The Land of the Free” Another thing that doesnt shock me is that Filesonic is Blocking Hong Kong IP addresses…I think I know why…Its to keep the MAFFIA AWAY FROM THEIR SITE WHILE THEY ARE INVADING OVER THERE…We all know that Filesonic’s sister site Fileserve has re-enabled file-sharing on its servers again…Im glad they didnt fold under pressure from those illegial invaders…I am just so tired of hearing about companies like the IIPA/MPAA/RIAA oversteaping their power and authority over the FREE internet…It makes me SICK that organizations like this are ALLOWED to have power like this…The one thing they never realize, file-sharing has been around as early as 1986 when Amiga & Commador cracking groups regularly uploaded to FTP and underground servers…Not much has changed except that file-sharing has become WAY TOO OVEREXPOSED these days…If it wasnt for the exposer then none of this CRAP would be surfacing in news…Here is my final statement of the month…This go out to IIPA/MPAA/RIAA and every Anti-P2P group out there…”You are still clueless after all the years of file-sharing that you still havent grasped the simple reason why it is around stronger then ever. Its because YOU PEOPLE MAKE TOO MUCH CRAP THAT ISNT WORTH BUYING!!! Take a page out of Ameatur File Makers and Indie Music Groups, They SUPPORT Free Exchange of There stuff via Bittorrent & Cyberlockers…If they are allowing it, WHY SHOULDT YOU!!! Your sales are not be impacted by File-Sharing, IT ALL THE STUPID LAWSUITS THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT UP IN THE LAST 5 YEARS!!! Here is an idea on how to gain back that money, STOP SUEING PEOPLE FOR DOING NOTHING WRONG, GO SOTOMIZE YOURSELF WITH RETRACTABLE BATTONS AND SHUT THE HELL UP!!! We file-sharers have HAD ENOUGH AND WILL NOT TAKE ABUSE OF POWER ANYMORE!!! Why dont you go cry to your mommy’s about how you lost 20 bucks because you bought a movie that SUCKED!!! Now that thats out, heres what you do, MPAA/RIAA/IIPA, GO SCREW YOURSELFS”

  • Abula

    What ! no Malaysia ? how shameful..Here we have a mega server farm that solely for worldwide movie tv series and song thingy…with gigapipe bandwidth..and our farm are hidden in caves..

    • Guest

      yep…they’re even try to find the cave for years yet didn’t find it..

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