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What the Entertainment Industry Really Wants to Do to the Internet (Donna Wentworth)

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CoCo blog has what European Digital Rights says is the wish list by the European international versions of the MPAA and RIAA (the MPA and IFPI) for Internet service providers: Movie & Music Industry Proposals ISP Self-Regulation. Evidently, they want ISPs to:


  • 'remove references and links to sites or services that do not respect the copyrights of rights holders'
  • 'require subscribers to consent in advance to the disclosure of their identity in response to a reasonable complaint of intellectual property infringement by an established right holder defence organisation or by right holder(s) whose intellectual property is being infringed'
  • terminate contracts of recidivist
  • implement instant messaging to communicate with infringers
  • implement filtering technologies to block sites that are 'substantially dedicated to illegal file sharing or download services'
  • voluntarily store data for copyright enforcement

Did I say 'wish list'? Sorry; that would be 'hit list.'

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(Via Copyfight.)

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