RIAA supports French 3 strike move
p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- RIAA boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol says he’s all for the ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule being promoted on the behalf of the movie and music industries by French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Given that Bainwol’s bosses, Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (USt), together with Hollywood studios Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, dreamed up the idea in the first place, his support isn’t terribly surprising.
South Korea is the latest country to fall in line with the corporate entertainment industry plan to have ISPs act as copyright cops, turning in their own customers so they can be victimised as file sharing criminals and thieves by the cartels.
Sadly, however, the scheme is for the most part coming apart at the seams with citizens making it clear they, not the movie studios and music labels, are in charge.
The Big 4 are in the midst of huge international campaign in another phase of their efforts to dominate, if not totally control, the way music is distributed online, and by whom, said p2pnet recently, going on »»»
Under it, they hope to force governments to toe the corporate line by introducing legislation to compel local ISPs to both identify customers accused by the labels of being illegal distributors of copyrighted music, and to ultimately terminate their accounts.
New Zealand was the first country to officially cave in to corporate demands, but is now wavering under public pressure to abandon the plan, inspired by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music.
France, the first country to get firmly behind the three-strikes-and-you` re-out legislation, seemed poised to adopt it, but it, too, is coming under increasing public pressure to drop the massive corporate DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control scheme.
In Britain, the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), argues that ISPs cannot prevent illegal downloading because they `are no more able to inspect and filter every single packet passing across their network than the Post Office is able to open every envelope`, p2pnet said recently.
The European Parliament has condemned France’s so-called HADOPI law, turning its back on every proposed amendment, rejecting the corporate music inspired ‘graduated response’ for the third time, said La Quadrature du Net.
Now, “Each country will forge its own solutions to this challenge,” CNet News has RIAA bullshit supremo Bainwol saying, adding, “but the general pattern is clear.
“ISPs and the content community are working together in a constructive way to find common solutions that work for all sides.”
The general pattern is, of course, quite the opposite.
fall in line – New South Korea `3 strikes` copyright law, April 6, 2009
p2pnet – Comcast, AT&T say No! to RIAA 3-strikes plan, March 26, 2009
wavering under public pressure – New Zealand: safe from Big Music. Or is it?, March 25, 2009
increasing public pressure – French anti-file sharing law targets children, March 25, 2009
cannot prevent illegal downloading – Brits say No! to ISPs as corporate copyright cops, March 16, 2009
condemned – Europe parliament rejects French 3 strikes law, March 27, 2009
HADOPI – French `3 strikes` anti-P2P law mired, May 10, 2008
La Quadrature du Net, The European Parliament rejects graduated response for the third time, March 26, 2009
CNet News – RIAA gives thumbs up to France’s three-strike law, April 8, 2009
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April 9th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Hello!
The law has been rejected today !
Check it out!!
April 9th, 2009 at 9:13 am
It’s (almost) over, french parliament just rejected the law.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:16 am
NOT
April 9th, 2009 at 9:35 am
lechfeck;
I just went and checked and they did reject it by a 21 – 15 vote. I know the French Pres ain’t gonna be too happy with the Parliament but, hey, the senators and politicians listened to the people who didn’t want this type of crap being introduced. The IFPI and the RIAA both have tried and lost in the vast majority of cases to get people to pass this wing nut idea and luckily saner heads have prevailed. Maybe now the corporate morons will get the idea that they do not run the world as much as they would like. If this goes back before Parliament again as it is supposed to let’s hope that it is rejected again only this time overwhelmingly so the greedy corporate entities that are the RIAA, MPAA and IFPI have to cry in their beer.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:40 am
The law will be re-voted in may, and this time, everybody will vote (almost 600 people in the parliament 21+15=36 present today).
April 9th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Worth checking out:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/09/hadopi_senate_no/
http://beta.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8b76b/french_hadopi_graduated_response3_strikes_law/
April 9th, 2009 at 11:13 am
“Sadly, however, the scheme is for the most part coming apart at the seams with citizens making it clear they, not the movie studios and music labels, are in charge.”
Might be sad for the MAFIAAS, but not for the people they call thieves!!
Glad to hear it died, just hope it stays dead!!