New UK government anti-P2P unit
p2pnet news view Movies | Music:- In the US, federal judge James P. Jones (right) dramatically undermined one of the basic elements of corporate music and movie company attempts to gain control of the online product distribution, ruling contrary to industry claims, files shared don’t automatically amount to sales lost.
The RIAA in particular has been trying to follow the lead of Hollywood’s MPAA by using spurious statements to force the issue of whether or not ISPs should act as corporate copyright cops on behalf of the studios and labels.
Now, in Britain, “Ministers intend to pass regulations on internet piracy requiring service providers to tell customers they suspect of illegally downloading films and music that they are breaking the law, says the draft report by Lord Carter,” according to the Financial Times.
“It would also make them collect data on serious and repeated infringers of copyright law, which would then be made available to music companies or other rights-holders who can produce a court order for them to be handed over.”
The UK move is part of a carefully co-ordinated universal campaign to bring internet sales under direct corporate control with various ‘trade’ units such as the RIAA the US and BPI in Britain acting as movie and record label lobbyists and media mouthpieces.
The Carter report even suggests ISPs and “rights-holding organisations” would have to contribute financially to the creation of a unit, which would be called the Rights Agency.
Laughably, the measures would, “form the spine of a new code of conduct for the internet industry,” says the story.
Broadcasting regulator Ofcom would be in charge, according to people who’ve read the report, says the FT, adding :
“The need for government intervention was apparently underlined yesterday when the department for business said none of its own proposals for regulation had won ‘widespread support’.”
dramatically undermined – `Files shared don`t equal sales lost,` judge rules, January 16, 2009
spurious statements – Judge Gertner picks up on RIAA BS, January 15, 2009
Financial Times – Internet piracy regulations planned for UK, January 16, 2009
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January 17th, 2009 at 4:06 am
This is ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE!
To have Ofcom, British Ministers or any other body to regulate Our Internet is blasphemy!
We must stand up to them or we loose our privacy and rights in emails, phone calls, chats, family files and videos, pics and all communications.
We know what Britain is all about: security cameras, police up the wazoo, arrests for calling scientology a “Cult”, banning protests even though people have a permit, banning sharing even privately made tunes, police being scientologists, police being paid off by big businesses, police being freemasons, police and security agency watch lists and anything to disturb and enslave the people.
What makes you think they won’t arrest anyone on trumped up charges as they have been? Their statements of “In our opinion” doesn’t cut it anymore.
WE MUST STOP THEM and QUICKLY or it will spread to Canada and everywhere!
January 17th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Oh Please!
First off,
if they ‘âMinisters intend to pass regulations on internet piracy requiring service providers to tell customers they suspect of illegally downloading films and music that they are breaking the law’
and send them an email via their ISPs email, it would mostly likely be filtered to go into the junk mail Hey, I dont want Corporate Spam =D
Second,
I wonder how they will be able to tell what traffic is what?
and most of it is encrpyted anyway, AES 268 I think it is
and third, (and now my favourite topic)
DNS! People in the UK, most likely would of changed DNS, http://opendns.com for example, and thus rendering any ISP filtering (with encrpytion) would render these ‘attempts’ to get peoples information and IPs for the labels Useless!!
Many people have said this
Dont spend the money artists get on trying to sue your own customers
It dosent work!
Filtering, and data mining is illegal in the UK, under their Data Protection act, which in turn is more, more serious than copyright infringement, and could get the State, and labels in lots, lots, of trouble!
We try to tell them!
keyword; media defender
January 17th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Lord Carter is just another politician on the take from corporate lobbyists. The overwhelming response from the public and technology companies were against government legislation. And thus, only the copyright industry was considered when a decision was made.
Evidently, the government no longer listens or cares for any opinion which deviates from their own and their entertainment industry master’s agendas.
January 17th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Lord Carter just sold our freedoms to the copyright lobbyists. Who’s going to assassinate him first?
January 17th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
@ Comeoncomcast
u think so eh?
with all due respect: guess you haven’t been reading the news and blogs
- even here in Canada Bell uses something called DPI [deep packet inspection] .. go to dslreports . com or look up what it actually does
- phone calls have been recorded by security agencies since the 70’s, now they have full data centers for each city larger than 10k … just in case of legal infractions
- guess you didn’t know that all encrypted software under UN rules require a back door, or haven’t you heard Microcrap worked with CIA for their Vista, it even has USB stick to get into any MS product
- as we know, what elites tell us is not what they do, or haven’t you heard there’s no corruption in government or corporations … ya ok LMAO
England is much worse … try talking to techies and users there
January 18th, 2009 at 6:41 am
UK is now officially the new East Germany. These Labour bastards will get booted out at the general election, probably by next june. Normal service will then be resumed, hopefully.
Down with MPAA, BPI, Lord Carter and NuLabour.
January 18th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
@hook
I know what DPI is and bell just uses as an excuse to keep the labels off their back
and where is information on this back door?
How? you cant run software from a USB if the system is locked sure you could try DOS or safemode but drivers required for installing software are not loaded in SM and dos is ancient
Sorry to burst your bubble
January 18th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
@ Comeon…
oh you want a lesson do you?
it used to be that back doors were posted freely on internet since mostly techies had access to certain channels. when search engines came along one could look for:
backdoor [software name]
as internet evolved searches got more sophisticated and this info more hidden. now one must do search for:
exploit [software name] , backdoor, hole, code, …
or know someone in the field or original coder.
famous case where person would not release code is PGP creator Philip R. Zimmermann as he was jailed till he did release backdoor to get out of jail.
how u say? go look up “Microsoft Gives Backdoor to Law Enforcement”
the other way is to use linux live cd for microcrap os
if you haven’t noticed there’s a crack and backdoor for pretty well everything
so, sorry to burst YOUR bubble
as for DPI: i suggest you do a much deeper study into what it does and how it does it, who Bell reports to, then who those report to etc., also Bell data storage centers
with all due respect you sound like a newbie … go educate yourself
you have 3 yrs before planet x get’s here