New Zealand: official corporate copyright cop
p2pnet news view Politics | Music:- The New Zealand government will officially commence operation as a Big 4 record label corporate copyright enforcement agency beginning next month, says the IFPI.
It’ll become the, “first country in the world to implement a graduated response [three strikes and you're out] system,” boasts the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) .
Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US) don’t have a serious presence in New Zealand. But they organised the development.
Behind closed doors and without the benefit of citizen input, of course.
That New Zealanders were, and are, out of the loop is pretty interesting considering they’re a part of world populations who keep the labels alive and who put government into power.
Nonetheless, the local government will, “start requiring ISPs to implement a policy of terminating the accounts of repeat infringers,” says the Big 4 extortion support unit’s new ‘study‘.
Moreover, “The Australian government has made it clear that it is watching events in France and the UK closely, with a view to taking action,” it says.
Equine Excreta
The move is part of carefully orchestrated programme to use world administrations to force ISPs to follow unswervingly dictates established and set down by the corporate music industry.
The US and the UK are in lock-step, backed by intensive mainstream media PR campaigns which falsely imply ISPs there and everywhere are similarly lining up to follow Big 4 orders.
But, “We are not working with them on this,” Verizon spokeswoman Ellen Yu told Wired categorically, said p2pnet recently.
Comcast, “declined to comment, and referred inquiries to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association” whereupon, “The group’s vice president, Brian Dietz, said he could not confirm any deals …”
The NCTA, “represents dozens of cable internet providers,” said the story.
AT&T, “declined comment through a spokesman,” and Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Charter Communications, “did not return repeated phone calls for comment”.
“Surely this group represents the principal US providers, does it not?” – we went on, “And yet not one of these major ISPs felt able to confirm the bald, unequivocal RIAA statement that it’d ‘hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs’.”In fact, “All I can tell you right now is that we have an agreement on principle with several leading ISPs but not all, and the agreement on principle is confidential,” Wired has RIAA spokeswoman Cara Duckworth dissembling.
“Governments are also involved in discussions of the issue in the US, Italy, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea,” says the IFPI report.
Assuredly, the situation is the same in other countries where the Big 4 are reporting ISP cooperation.
study – IFPI DIGITAL MUSIC REPORT 2009: SUMMARY – January , 2009
Wired – Top Internet Providers Cool to RIAA 3-Strikes Plan, January 5, 2009
p2pnet – RIAA claims of ISP support: equine excreta, January 6, 2009
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January 20th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
you know it’s really too bad that governments,don’t get all the facts,before they just go ahead and stomp the ordinairy people who put them in power!did the ask the electorate?? the people who placed them in power?read any of the newer studies,on p2p sharing?i think not!! it also begs a query,how many palms have been greased??to push all that legistation thru,with no public input??sad,sad!! i really thought NZ was a democracy. guess i was wrong!!