Japanese ISPs as copyright cops
p2pnet news | P2P:- Four major Japanese ISPs have agreed to act as entertainment cartel copyright cops.
The music and movie industries, “notched up another victory in Sweden, which, like Britain and Ireland, is fast taking on the aspect of a tightly controlled corporation rather than a free country,” p2pnet posted recently, continuing:
“There, the courts will be able to, ‘force internet service providers in Sweden to give out IP-addresses used in illegal file sharing to whoever owns the rights to the material,’ says The Local, going on, ‘The government is now united in how to approach the issue, write Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask and Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth in the opinion pages of newspaper Svenska Dagbladet’.”
Now the Japanese ISPs, including the Telecom Service Association and the Telecommunications Carriers Association, will, “forcibly cut the Internet connection of users found to repeatedly use Winny and other file-sharing programs to illegally copy gaming software and music,” says the Yomiuri Shimbun, going on:
“Resorting to cutting off the Internet connection of copyright violators has been considered before but never resorted to over fears the practice might involve violations of privacy rights and the freedom of use of telecommunications.
“The Internet provider organizations have, however, judged it possible to disconnect specific users from the Internet or cancel provider contracts with them if they are identified as particularly flagrant transgressors in cooperation with copyright-related organizations, according to sources.”
About 1,000 major and smaller domestic providers belong to the four associations,” which means the measure would become the first countermeasure against Winny-using rights-violators used by the whole provider industry,” says the story.
“They [sic] organizations plan to launch a consultative panel, possibly in April, together with copyright organizations including the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers and the Association of Copyright for Computer Software. They will then begin making guidelines for disconnecting users from the Internet who leak illegally copied material onto the Net.”
Adds the Yomiuri Shimbun >>>
According to the new agreement, copyright organizations would notify providers of Internet protocol addresses used by those who repeatedly make copies illegally, using special detection software. The providers would then send warning e-mails to the users based on the IP addresses of the computers used to connect to the Internet. If contacted users did not then stop their illegal copying, the providers would temporarily disconnect them from the Internet for a specified period of time or cancel their service-provision contracts.
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Also See:
p2pnet – Swedish ISPs become copyright cops, March 14, 2008
Yomiuri Shimbun – Winny copiers to be cut off from Internet, March 15, 2008
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March 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am
What type of big brother sh!t is this! The entertaiment cartel has forced Japanease ISP into monitoring subcribers data transmissions and block those who they think are sharing “copyrighted” files and the ISPs actually agree to embrake on this getaspo crap wow, it’s a sad day for everyone