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Belgian ISP Forced To Block P2P Traffic

Posted by kdawson on from the it-could-happen-here dept.

An anonymous reader lets us know of developments in a case in Belgium that has been under litigation since 2004. The Belgian copyright watchdog SABAM has forced an ISP to begin filtering P2P traffic (PDF). According to the PDF on the SABAM site: "The Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SABAM) has just won an important legal battle within the context of the dispute that opposes it to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Tiscali, which has become Scarlet Extended Ltd. In its sentence of June 29, 2007, the Court of First Instance of Brussels is demanding from the access provider that it adopts one of the technical measures put forward by the expert in order to prevent Internet users from illegally downloading SABAM's musical repertoire via P2P software." The rumor is that Scarlet will be forced to deploy the same software as MySpace uses (Audible Magic) to filter illegal P2P traffic from the legal.

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  1. Re:I find it so interesting by fadilnet · · Score: 0, Troll

    Indeed. I believe that piracy itself should be viewed as crime (because it's not right now) and the notion of piracy being a very bad thing should be inculcated right from school (level when students are around 10 or so). There are work-arounds to this. Many who don't go for P2P, usually opt for free file hosts like megashare for example. It would be interesting to see how to prevent piracy when it comes to people sharing over free file hosts. Sharing and distribution of pirated products (in any form) must be stopped @ the source - the users who usually don't even give a frak to netiquette.

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  2. Re:Here's what Relakks.coms costs by Corwn+of+Amber · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fuck You Real Hard. Only the vapid tripe that evolutionary rejects like you call "entertainment" ever gets in the bargain bin. Everything I download (and it's 100+G / month) is out of .

    I don't pay for software because I'm yet to see $1 in return on investment.

    I don't pay for movies because, if said movie hasn't made an obscene profit* in the first week-end, it is considered a commercial failure anyway. (I'm not buying into the "rental" racket : shop-owners who pay $150 for the right to rent a DVD without bonuses and sometimes even lacking the original audio! Boycott.)

    *obscene profit : cost $ 10e6, makes ten times that in the two first days. Poor, poor Hollywood. Boohoo.

    I do pay for every thing that can not be copied at zero cost. I believe in capitalism : everything is worth exactly its production cost, taking into account paying everyone involved in producing said thing, so that they can buy things.

    Don't even think of replying before you've read http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/l ove/ and http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/albini .html

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  3. Re:Bad news by Hognoxious · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is bad news for us Belgians.
    It's all relative. I mean how bad can it be, compared to the fact that you're Belgian?
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