Leaked IFPI Report Details Anti-Piracy Strategy

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:11AM from the filter-or-it-gets-the-hose-again dept.

hypnosec writes "IFPI has inadvertently made available its own confidential internal report, penned by none other than IFPI's chief anti-piracy officer, which details its strategy against online piracy for major recording labels across the globe. The document, 30-pages long, talks about file sharing sites, torrents, cyberlockers, phishing attacks, expectations from Internet service providers, mp3 sites and a lot more. The document is a global view representation of IFPI's 'problems,' 'current and future threats,' and the industry's responses to them." A few tactics: shutting down music services, requiring file lockers filter uploads or be shut down (interesting, since the DMCA's one good provision is the safe harbor, and proactive filtering could mean losing that protection), lobbying for DNS blocking legislation, pressuring ISPs into extra-legally enforcing their will, disrupting payment processing for pirate sites through blacklists, and providing "training built around 'real world' experiences and challenges rather than focusing on theory" on copyright law to judges and legal bodies.

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Keep giving me ideas! by oakgrove · 2012-07-25 05:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Yay! More ways to download stuff. I was just finishing working my way through this list and now I have 30 pages worth of new knowledge to assimilate. Keep it coming!

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Re:It's a war by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-25 05:27 · Score: 1, Funny

someone should draft and distribute produce a 30 page pro-piracy manifesto in retort to this