Denmark ‘pirate review board’
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Whichever way you look at it, and from whatever angle, the entertainment industry, with Hollywood to the fore, is trouble for everyone except its shareholders, who are laughing all the way to the bank as governments jump to do their bidding.
The major corporate movie studios are traditionally linked to corruption and organised crime, and in the 21st digital century they (as well as the Big 4 record labels) have politicians around the world blatantly introducing legislation created solely to keep out competition, and keep the cartels in business.
They’ve use their bought-and-paid for political and media connections to boost simple commercial movies and music copyright infringement, which affects no one but them, to the level of rape and murder.
Said the introduction to a review by The Independent on Tim Adler’s ‘Hollywood and the Mob’ »»»
“I may be a drunken whore, but at least I don’t get into bed with men who kill people and steal for a living.” That was Ava Gardner to Frank Sinatra after their love-making had been interrupted by a phone call from the Mafia ordering him to perform at a nearby nightclub for local Mafiosi. The story testifies to Sinatra’s subservience. “Ol’ blue eyes” was a pawn, a Mafia plaything, rather than a playmaker. He was never a made-up member of the mob.
But his lifelong association with both the Chicago “outfit” and the New York “mob” does highlight another long-standing relationship: namely the marriage made in hell between Hollywood and organised crime.
Entertainment industry causes
Government leaders now routinely introduce and sanction measures passed to them by corporate lobbyists, but funded by local taxpayers, and which have no benefit for anyone beyond the entertainment industry.
No one questions it when scarce resources of all descriptions are channelled into entertainment industry causes, and now, “ISPs and the entertainment industries are in negotiations to set up a so-called ‘pirate review board’ in Denmark,” says ComputerWorld, quoted by enigmax in TorrentFreak, going on:
“As the online copyright debate heats up, various countries across Europe are trying to find solutions and alternatives to the suggested blocking of websites such as The Pirate Bay and the problematic suggestion that alleged file-sharers should be disconnected from the Internet in a 3 Strikes-style regime.”
Of course, there never was a debate until the cartels began it. And the only people suggesting sites should be blocked are those running the major movie and music studios.
In Denmark, “negotiations between copyright holders and ISPs are underway, with ITEK (the Danish information technology, telecommunications, electronics and enterprise federation) acting as intermediary in the setting up of a ‘Pirate Board’, designed to settle disputes without the need for lengthy court battles, says the story, going on:
“According to Computerworld, examples of the type of extended litigation they would like to avoid in future are the domain-blocking cases against AllofMP3 and The Pirate Bay.
“On the rights holders side are companies such as Sony and EMI, with ISPs TDC, Telenor and Telia on the other. ITEK spokesman John Kristensen confirmed that that talks are underway.”
Adds TorrentFreak »»»
At the moment the summer is being eyed for a conclusion, but that seems very optimistic since at the moment, Denmark’s ISPs seem determined not to become Internet policeman on behalf of the copyright holders.
Other proposals involving the ‘Pirate Board’ surround the hot issue of a 3 Strikes-style regime for file-sharers, but with a twist. Rather than rights holders sending warnings to alleged file-sharers via ISPs, instead these would be issued by the Pirate Board. If the recipients of these warnings then fail to respond, they wouldn’t be disconnected from the Internet but instead find themselves in a traditional court case.
Stay tuned.
The Independent – Once corrupted, always controlled, April 8, 2007
ComputerWorld – Nyt pirat-nævn skal mægle i spærrings-stridigheder, June 3, 2009
TorrentFreak – ISPs and Copyright Holders Set Up `Pirate Review Board`, June 10, 2009
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June 11th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Issued by the Pirate Board? Do they think we’re really that stupid? We all know where the warnings would truly be originating from. It’s clear to me that such a “Pirate Board” would most likely be a puppet council, meant to divert our ire away from the cartels and act as a sort of buffer. Why always three strikes too? Why not five or ten? Is it because baseball uses a three strikes and you’re out rule? That makes no sense at all. Baseball and piracy have nothing to do with one another. Stop being so damn closed minded!
So who decides how many people will form this “Pirate Board”? Who decides which people are on the board? What legal recourse will those who are falsely accused have? What penalties will there be for those that abuse the three strikes rule? Trust me, if there is even the slightest means of abusing a law, unscrupulous folks will take full advantage of it. Based simply on how IP address work and the need for DHCP, I can see a lot of honest hard working folks getting disconnected, followed up with a hell of a hard time proving their innocence. Just look at how frivolous lawsuits have gotten completely out of hand over the years, wasting millions in taxpayer money! Speaking of money, who will fund the “Pirate Board”? I say the entertainment industry should foot the bill, or at least a large part of it. Not the taxpayer! Who decides how much is spent during any given year of operation? Where should all that money should be allocated? Big fat paychecks for serving the interests of greedy corrupt corporations? I think not! There are probably tons more questions that need asking that I haven’t even thought of at the moment as well.
Coming up with an lopsided idea that sounds good to one side of this issue is easy enough, but has anyone bothered to think of everyone that will be affected by it as well as the many ways it can all go horribly wrong? Does anyone think that Venice would have still been built on the location it was if the original founders had bothered to look beyond the fact that it had a nice view of the ocean? Color me as very very doubtful.