p2pnet - rss feed: Record labels want Hong Kong IDs
p2p news / p2pnet: Around the world, the Big Four Organized Music cartel is trying to find ways to identify people, including young children, whom they claim share with each other online. The idea is to terrorise them into buying over-priced, cookie-cutter ‘product’
OM members Sony BMG and Warner Music (both found guilty of bribery and payoffs) and EMI and Vivendi Universal (under investigation on the same charges), say p2p file sharers are thieves and criminals, although nothing has been stolen and no money has changed hands.
Now, in Hong Kong, "If the High Court orders four local Internet service providers to disclose the identities of 22 alleged illegal music file sharers, the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance would allow it, a spokeswoman said Tuesday," says the Standard.
The demand for the client names, "was part of a concerted global action taken by 17 countries on November 15, launched by London- based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry," says the story, going on:
"IFPI Hong Kong said it had locked onto the Internet protocol addresses of the 22 individuals engaging in illegal file sharing on the Internet. It hoped to seek compensation by bringing civil lawsuits. However, it could not identify them without the help of the ISPs."
A hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday, adds the Standard.
The IFPI is owned by the Big Four.
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
Also read:-
Standard - Accused music file sharers risk being revealed by law, November 23, 2005
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