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p2p news / p2pnet:- The entertainment and software cartels see themselves as virtual nations.
Their `executives` regularly hector and lecture countries such as China, Russia and Pakistant as though they were bad acting employees. And they get away with it, so it was no big surprise to learn Warner, Universal, Sony BMG and EMI had targetted Israel, forcing four web sites to close in their first major onslaught.
Furthermore, ALIS, the Israeli version of the RIAA, “admitted to `monitoring the P2P networks for month, gathering information` in order to `sue the sharers themselves`,” Nana Net-Life Magazine`s Nitzan Weidenfeld told p2pnet yesterday.
But how effective will the cartels be in a country which isn`t used to being shoved around like it was some errant school-kid?
Israel has a thriving p2p community, supported by IRC channels, sites, groups, forums and etc, Weidenfeld says. But, The government is a whole other story.
Cartel reps in Israeli, don`t have a fraction of the power that the US industry is enjoying, he states, and since the politicians are smelling upcoming elections, they don’t want to irritate their voters right now. On the other hand they don`t wanna be portrayed as supporting breaking the law. So they just sit back and hardly get involved.
“Little to no legislation is being made on the subject here.”
As for the providers, ISPs rely mostly on sharers for high-speed connection sales, says Weidenfeld. They got as close as to tv commercials being made which practically said to the audiences, `get a high speed connection to catch the newest movies before everybody else,` meaning – pirating.
So I guess they silently support the sharers, and some of them are presumed to not agreeing to share info with ALIS, although no official comment was made so far.
warezfaw.com (Warez from Another World) has a notice in Hebrew from Vin_Disel, AnAlyZeR, Israel4U2, ZiPp0.
Lionetwork.net – “A Part of the Lion Heart Team” – seemed to be up to a certain extent today with a post linking back to Nana Net-Life’s interview with the ALIS lawyers.
lala.co.il – linked to http://www.dates.co.il/, with a large red notice in Hebrew.
And subs.co.il had what seemed to be a forums section up.
Stay tuned.
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September 24th, 2005 at 8:36 am
harray for israelies ..all i can say
September 25th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Jewish moguls with strong ties to Israel own huge stakes in the movie and music industries in America. Which also serve to spread a positive view of Israel through targetted scenes or personalities. How many times has the hero or “friends” been Jews in movies or series? As an example Beth Israel Hospital is always mentioned in the series “Friends”, and two of its main lovable carachters are Jews. Furthermore, many owners or CEOs of media companies are Jews, Disney comes to mind, so does Rupert Murdoch.
I have nothing against Jews, just stating the facts. Therefore Israel would not be on the side of the P2P community, but rather the silent horse behind the RIAA and MPAA.
September 27th, 2005 at 6:45 pm
your so called “facts” are hardly worth even arguing about, since they are nothing more than cheap demagogy.
so i wil disregard them entirely, since i really don’t want to start a flame war.
what you don’t understand about israel, is that we don’t really have a movie or music industry. the real money is in the hands of the media.
israel had always been a bastion of piracy (w00t!), since the early days of floppy discs, to the more current pirated cds (4$ at almost every single central bus station\mall\marketplace), and now the p2p networks.
p2p accounts for over 70% of network traffic here, and the ISPs loooove charging us for higher and higher bandwidth, and even advertise plainly for young adults who wants to see the latest movies and suchlike)
furthermor, israel is not a “throw a punch and you’ll get sued” kind of state. i honestly believe that if those bastards will start suing people in court, there will be a reckoning. a violent one.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:03 pm