Korea bans p2p file sharing
p2p news / p2pnet: Eight of Korea’s 11 p2p services have caved in to pressure from the Big Four Organized Music record labels.
They’ll now "intercept" mp3 files, says PC Pro.
The Big Four’s Korean Association of Phonogram Producers (KAPP) had threatened legal action unless the p2p companies took action by 12 June, says the story.
"We held an urgent meeting last week, and eight of 11 member companies agreed to block MP3 files until we find ways to charge users,” TMCNet has spokesman Jun Hyun-sung saying. However, "he refused to name the eight companies because he worries they may suffer a disadvantage in negotiations with the music industry," it states.
Services such as Soribada and Purna, "have been widely used for file sharing, where thousands of users can give and take their music and movie data," says TMCNet. "Users pay only about 50 won (about 52 cents) to service providers for downloading an entire album, usually about 50 megabytes in MP3 file format …"
In March, p2p sites including Soribada, forced to adopt fee-charging services and due to launch on April 1, said they could go on hold.
At the time, filtering technology to stop people from sharing music files owned by the Big Four hadn’t been put in place, observed KMPA boss Seo Hee-deok.
After being forced offline by the KMPA, Soribada, Korea’s largest p2p file sharing company, reappeared in February with the news that users would "have to pay certain amounts of service fees for downloading music files".
"We agreed with Soribada to charge 500 won (about 51 cents) for users downloading music files labeled with digital right management, 700 won (about 72 cents) for music files without DRM and 250 won (ahout 26 cents) for poor sound-quality music," Hee-deok stated.
Other p2p service providers were also said to be, "in talks" with the KMPA, "for similar arrangements," but major labels such as DoReMi Media, Manine Media, Ins Digital and CJ Music were opposing monthly flat fees, except for "outdated" songs,
Meanwhile, "The online service companies are worried the government only listens to the copyright holders," TMCNet has Jun saying, adding:
"We will request the government to take a more balanced stance on the matter."
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Also See:
PC Pro – Korea stops music file-sharing, June 12, 2006
TMCNet – Internet Music Sharing Blocked, June 11, 2006
fee-charging services – Korea p2p charges revealed, March 27, 2006
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June 12th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Are tet talking about files sharing or file seling disguied as p2p sharing?
I suspect that it is the latter. If son then what the so called p2p services are is piracy (distribution for money).
June 12th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Circumvention suggestions:
1. Rename the files to *.doc, *.tif, or *.xyz (or whatever)
2. Encrypt them with PGP where, by convention, the key is the filename or the first N characters of it.
3. Use Bit Torrent with transport encryption engaged.
100% Effective Countermeasures to circumvention:
Disconnect the internet in Korea.
January 8th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
“Users pay only about 50 won (about 52 cents) to…”
“to charge 500 won (about 51 cents)”
I think you’ll find 50 won is around 5.2 cents. Either way, you need some real editors…