p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Whenever you come across the phrase ‘creative industries,’ you know it’ll be something to do with the corporate entertainment cartels, which are anything but.

Big Music (aka Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music) and Hollywood ( aka Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney) are now close to a year into their campaign to suborn various national governments, the aim being to turn them into copyright enforcement divisions, funded by local taxpayers.

Britain has already said No to the cartel-inspired ‘three strikes’ law which would see alleged “illegal” file sharers have their online accounts terminated.

But the studios and record labels don’t pay their lobbyists millions of dollars for nothing and now an “alliance of UK creative industrie” wants the UK government, “to force internet service providers (ISPs) to disconnect users who ignore repeated warnings about sharing illegal content,” says the BBC.

The “creative industries” include Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s BPI ( British Phonographic Industry) and Hollywood’s FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) who’ve come up  “urgent recommendations” they want included in a set of government rules promulgated by the cartels and called the Digital Britain manifesto.

However, “the Internet Services Providers’ Association (Ispa) – a trade body that represents ISP’s – said that users could challenge disconnections through the courts and, at present, the technology available for monitoring and detecting illegal sharers was not of a standard “where they would be admissible as evidence in court,” says the story, going on:

“Instead, Ispa said that rights holders needed to rewrite their licensing agreements, to take account of ‘new models of online content distribution’.”

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Earlier this year, the UK’s Intellectual Property minister, David Lammy, said: “We can’t have a system where we’re talking about arresting teenagers in their bedrooms.”

The government has set a target of reducing illegal file-sharing by 70 to 80% within two to three years.

ISPs have long resisted becoming “gatekeepers of content” and have pointed out that any change to their role would require a change in UK legislation, which currently classifies them as mere “conduits” of data.

And corporate plans to introduce an anti-P2P, anti-file share law in Europe appear to have been thwarted in Europe.

When the EU parliament voted on an EU telecom reform package, member states called for a new paragraph, “prohibiting national authorities from excluding users from the internet without a court order”.

“Earlier this year, the UK’s Intellectual Property minister, David Lammy, said: ‘We can’t have a system where we’re talking about arresting teenagers in their bedrooms’,” says the BBC.

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already said No – UK backs out of corporate ‘3 strikes’ law, April 29, 2009
BBC – Call to ‘disconnect file-sharers’, May 12, 2009
excluding users – Anti-P2P plans shot down in Europe, May 7, 2009