p2pnet news | P2P:- Having made zero headway with their efforts to sue the P2P filesharing community into submission, the entertainment cartels, with the members of the Big 4 organised music gang up front, have switched their attack to ISPs, trying to browbeat them into becoming corporate copyright cops.

Britain is ready to roll in that capacity, so are Japan and Sweden, and Hollywood’s MPAA reckons it’s, “in the best interests of Internet providers to sift through data traveling across their networks and interrupt transmissions that violate copyright law”.

Now, “After being blown off by the Norwegian police, MPAA lawyer Espen Tøndel is now demanding that ISPs disconnect Norwegian file-sharers from the Internet,” says TorrentFreak, going on:

“According to IKT Norway, an interest group for ISPs, the lawyer has sent a letter to Norwegian ISPs on behalf of The Norwegian branch of the MPAA.

“In the letter, Tøndel asks the ISPs to notify customers who share copyrighted content, and threaten to disconnect them from the internet. Tøndel also attached a document that supposedly links the IP-addresses of seeders to copyrighted works.

Notes Hallstein Bjercke from IKT Norway, “In a constitutional state, the police and the prosecuting authority have the job of investigating and indicting, not lawyers and communication engineers.”

Meanwhile, “IKT Norway makes it clear that the Norwegian ISPs will not take the role of investigator and judge against their own customers,” says the story.

” ‘To give that kind of responsibility to the ISPs is like asking the mailman to control the contents of every letter and package he delivers,’ Bjercke says.”

Adds TorrentFreak:

“IKT Norway is now checking into the legality of the law firms private investigation and the legality of connecting personal information to the customers of Norwegian ISPs.”

Slashdot it!

ready to roll – Britain to turn ISPs into corporate copyright cops, February 12, 2008
Japan – Japanese ISPs as copyright cops, March 17, 2008
Sweden – Swedish ISPs become copyright cops, March 14, 2008
sift through data – MPAA wants ISPs to unplug file sharers, March 28, 2008
TorrentFreak – Norwegian ISPs Refuse MPAA’s Request to Disconnect Pirates, March 28, 2008

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