IFPI: ISPs Should Block BitTorrent and The Pirate Bay
Written by Ernesto on December 26, 2007The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is trying to convince European lawmakers that ISPs should take extreme measures to fight piracy. They suggest that ISPs should block access to websites such as The Pirate Bay, and block filesharing protocols, no matter what they’re being used for.
The IFPI - the anti-piracy organization that represents the recording industry worldwide - sees ISPs as one of their biggest enemies. “ISPs often advertise music as a benefit of signing up to their service, but facilitate the illegal swapping of copyright infringing music on a grand scale,” they said previously. In an attempt to restrict the Internet, the anti-pirates have sent a list of three absurd recommendations to the EU parliament.
Earlier this year the IFPI won a case against the Belgian ISP Scarlet. In this case the judge ruled that ISPs can be forced to either block or filter copyright infringing content on P2P networks. At the time, IFPI Chairman and CEO John Kennedy said: “This is a decision that we hope will set the mould for government policy and for courts in other countries in Europe and around the world.” That’s exactly what they are trying to do now.
None of the measures below are overly burdensome or expensive, or cause problems for regular services to customers, says the IFPI. Here’s what they recommend:
Content filtering
The IFPI suggests that ISPs should identify music files on their network and check them against a reference database of “audio fingerprints” to check whether the files are infringing copyright. This might work on Kazaa, but it is not clear what methods the ISP will have to implement to distinguish between copyright infringing and legal content on P2P networks, such as BitTorrent. That will be a tough job, if not, impossible.
Protocol Blocking
According to the IFPI, an easy but effective solution is to simply block all P2P protocols and forget about all the indie publishers that use it to share legal content, for free. If customers can’t use BitTorrent or any other filesharing protocol piracy will decline, and that’s basically all they care about.
Blocking access to infringing websites
What better way to censor the Internet than to block entire websites, especially The Pirate Bay. The IFPI tried to block websites before - last year they convinced a Swedish ISP (Perspectiv) that it was a good idea to block allofmp3. However, after The Pirate Bay decided to block all Perspectiv’s customers from its site, they backed down, re-enabled access to allofmp3 - and apologized.
These recommendations might seem absurd, but Heise.de reports that the IFPI has already convinced several European politicians to support these measures. Next month, The Committee on Culture and Education from the European parliament will discuss if these recommendations should be turned into European policy.
There is little doubt that it will cause quite a stir if they are.
(via P2P Blog)
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MEINE TRAUME KOMMEN WAHR!!!
SIEG HEIL AMERICA
America has the RIAA and Europe has the IFPI. The world has gone to hell in a hand bag.
[quote comment="248877"]I don’t see this as a bad thing. I see this as an opportunity.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
BitTorrent is old, and has many flaws. And if ISP’s block it, people from all around the world will work together to build a new protocol. One that won’t be easily detected, one that is greatly encrypted, one that is secure and undetectable in so many ways. Everyone’s already thinking it, wishing it, and some are developing it. This action by ISP’s will only put the screws to the developers, speeding it’s development. And with BitTorrent completely useless, widespread adoption will be much quicker than it would have been it was released while BitTorrent was still working.
I sincerely hope they do block BitTorrent.[/quote]
Go to hell. Fuck yourself.
That is all.
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“Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.” - Charles Steinmetz
“I am a firm believer in socialism and I know that the quicker you have monopoly in this country the quicker you will have socialism.” - Charles Steinmetz
[quote comment="248856"]@20
Yes, we are indeed getting monitored, BUT it is an anti-terror act, which means the local Anti Pirate Group can’t use this, for now.
They will also need a court order just to get the billing information from the ISP.
But the whole “logging act”, is primarily anti-terror, but who knows what they’ll come up with…
But as it is now, the Anti Pirates haven’t got much to say :)
The last thing we heard from them, was a statement that they had sent out, around 200 compensations demands, but it was only to people using DC++, Gnutella and a few unsing BitTorrent :)[/quote]
If it’s anti-terror, then they can’t use any sort of court orders to pick us off. If they did they would be using the warrant in a way that wasn’t approved, and if it was approved, then the whole warrant is illegal and void. We aren’t terrorizing anyone and with that we should be free.
If they get this through there will be hell to pay anyway. If they tell us we can’t use bittorrent or other P2P anymore we’ll stop using anything they offer, too ^_^. This is just a scare tactic, they know if they get this through the only ones hurt will be them and who they represent.
boo-hoo, get over it you leeching wasters.
Because thats obviously going to stop us.
Why don’t they just fuck the fuck off.
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[quote comment="249209"]
If it’s anti-terror, then they can’t use any sort of court orders to pick us off. If they did they would be using the warrant in a way that wasn’t approved, and if it was approved, then the whole warrant is illegal and void. We aren’t terrorizing anyone and with that we should be free.[/quote]
Well, from what i know, it’s only PET (Danish CIA) who got full access to the logs, BUT what i mean is, the politicians in Denmark have all these crazy ideas, and alot of the politicians are influensed by the American way, which suck :(
[quote comment="248541"]There’s only one solution:
Ban the internet![/quote]
Time to update my wi-fi..
Well, suck my balls and call me grandad.
Let them try. They can’t censor the internet, and if they try, i shall personally devote all my time to find loopholes.
“Yeah - it’s called capitalism.”
Actually it’s called socialism
When those people are going to learn that the internet is not from them, but from the users!
Block BitTorrent is even not a good idea. Think howmany linux distro’s that you can download with BitTorrent?
They should let piracy. When you try to fight it, more people will hang on more to piracy. When you don’t fight it, it find a balance.
Happy holidays to all of you!
Happy Bit-mas!
[quote comment="248541"]There’s only one solution:
Ban the internet![/quote]
no, the only way: do nothing, let it be, like it´s nowadays
These proposals from the IFPI are nothing compared to what the Americans want. American media companies are fighting hard to make fully-functional computers illegal to possess. Look it up. They testified on video!
Haha no chance..!they will never stop us .!the only way is to ban the internet.!!
if my isp blocks me from using bittorrent they can stick there internet up there arses its all i use it for
Found this yesterday:
http://www.newsbittorrent.com/en/
There seems to be a lot of anti-rats on these responses. For those of you who know who you are, why don’t you wake the fuck up and take out that money cock out your ass? Maybe its hurting your brain therefore indirectly influencing your opinion. If USA, or Europe ever tried to make these kind of laws world wide, there would be a great up rising…almost a 1/3 of USA uses the internet for torrents and the like…you really think they would sit by and do nothing…no my friends, they would grab all they have and it would be world war 3…the Germans were accused of ethnic cleansing this will be another form of it. And no it would not be against nation vs nation, it would be people vs government and their all of their corrupt money hungry pigs that leech the life out of common people like us. So ask yourself, who are the real pirates here?
Sorry to completely change the topic, but I had comment on this.
First off, I agree that holidays now are primarily centered around money and excessive purchasing. I hasn’t always been this bad, but that’s today’s society.
Secondly, Wade, I don’t mean to sound offensive, but your comment is rather ignorant. Many people choose not to celebrate Christmas, for various reasons. Personally, I am completely opposed to the concept of religion (and religious faith in general), and I can’t force myself to celebrate a religious holiday, no matter how commercialized it has become. So as you said, I don’t buy presents for people, and I make it very clear to friends and family not to send me gifts. Of course people send gifts anyway, and I always thank them. Usually throughout the year, I will spontaneously buy gifts for people, so by no means am I selfish.
Either way, the point of all this was that it helps to keep an open mind. The OP said he didn’t celebrate Christmas due to its commercialization; well, that is his right. Who are you to criticize that? You said that it’s a religious celebration, which is reason enough for people like me not to celebrate it. In the future, please try to remember that a very large percentage of people inevitably will not share your point of view.
[quote comment="248770"][quote comment="248739"]Christmas is a hoax
Holiday are made by these so called
lawmakers so that we spend money on useless stuff
Great for big business[/quote]
No…gift giving is made up by these guys. Religiously Christmas is the celebration of Christ’s birth…hens CHRISTmas…..
You sir, need to work on your knowledge and quit being ignorant.
If your beliefs are as such you stated them, DON’T BUY PRESENTS FOR PEOPLE. And, don’t accept them…but I’m sure that’s not how you chose to roll.
As for the IFPI…calm down people, they will get their just deserts in due time…[/quote]
yes lets turn the world into a fascist state, that would be nice
everyone all the same no individuallity, no freedom, no rights, white power!! white power!!!
get a grip qand fuck off you ifpi morons
They just need to follow China’s example. Block everything and imprison anyone who tries to break the communication barrier. In a country where Bush can be elected twice, it can happen.
The government SHOULD reinstate deadsentences, and sentence all IFPI affiliates to death.
They won’t do this, for the same reason they do not commit to IFPI’s statement.
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