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UK IP Chief Wants ISPs To Police Piracy Proactively
An anonymous reader sends this report from TorrentFreak:
The UK's top IP advisor has published recommendations on how Internet service providers should deal with online piracy. Among other things, he suggested that Internet services should search for and filter infringing content proactively. According to the report, ISPs have a moral obligation to do more against online piracy. Mike Weatherley, a Conservative MP and Intellectual Property Adviser to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, has pushed various copyright related topics onto the political agenda since early last year. Previously Weatherley suggested that search engines should blacklist pirate sites, kids should be educated on copyright ethics, and that persistent file-sharers should be thrown in jail.
They need to do something. Local bobby on the beat? Gone. Investigate burglaries, assault, vandalism, all on camera - no chance. How about going after someone that said something naughty on twitter, yes, they'll do that. Terrorists out in the open, hate crimes from muslim groups, no fucking chance. They're so lazy today they don't even bother with speed camera behind bus stops.
Anyone visiting from another country would wonder whether the nation has a police force. They gobble up plenty of money, but what they do for it is anyone's guess.
ISPs have about as much 'moral obligation' to filter pirate content as do power grid companies to filter electricity used for the same. And it's about as hard to implement, I'd imagine.
Ah! Ha! It is! April Fool You!
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What is an IP cheif? Do they assign internet protocol addresses like the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority? Just asking since we are talking about internet service provides, correct?
American here.
I agree that ISPs should monitor our traffic and deal with it appropriately. I agree so much that I think we should extend the idea to traffic on real-life roads. Yes, we should have roads policing us. Not cops, but roads. If a road detects someone doing something criminal (we need to design the right of kind A.I.), we can program it to stick spikes up from itself to stop us.
I mean... as long as "want" goes!
... until software stops being so expensive and TV shows stop being delayed and locked down by DRM. It's that simple. Let me buy a cheap subscription, let me convert it and stream it to any device I own... or bust.
The people of the UK are the most spied on in the west. Cameras everywhere, GCHQ, grabbing data from everything. Sooner or later they will do too much and it will start to crumble.
To learn about copyright ethics -- that is, how unethical the very concept is -- be sure to read Boldrin & Levine's Against Intellectual Monopoly and Lessig's Free Culture.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Damn right they should educate kids on the ethics!
You know about how copyright was about enhancing the greater good by restricting the free flow of ideas temporarily to improve the pool of ideas and how the current insane terms break this contract.
So he doesn't actually mean that, (surprise! he's a liar!) what he actually means is educate kids with corporate propaganda.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Providers will do all they wants and will use user's data for their own purposes. The blocking pirate sites is not business of providers
Do not route yourself to the internet, Mr IP Man.
Yep I fully agree. I hope they start knocking off all sorts of legitimate media as a result because how the hell are they supposed to identify is any specific website hosting content actually owns that IP? What with thousands of publishers owning the IP rights to billions of pieces of media who knows if Sony has the right to distribute a video they are showing on their own website? Heck streaming a football match on ESPN isn't even certain. Maybe there's a dispute in the background and they don't own the IP there either.
I saw we block everything, starting with all the media companies. Man that would make the internet far more pleasant.
Also:
The word will be a safer place if everyone checked that their customers were innocent!
All this will do is force the file sharers to start encrypting everything. Give me access to the content I want, when I want it (I live outside the USA) and I will gladly pay. Until then, I will gladly pirate what I want, when I want it.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
... will they be given guns, or batons at least?
The police should be interested in criminal offences, not civil matters. Copyright is complicated because (in the UK at least) infringement can be both, but the two aspects get conflated. The criminal offences (broadly) are to do with dealing in infringing items for profit, and it's reasonable that the police pursue people committing such offences.
The issue of whether these things *should* be offences is a separate matter. What we don't want is the police deciding which offences they're going to try to enforce. If society doesn't want criminal copyright infringement then that should be for legislators to decide, not law enforcement.
Rules are differrent there than in the US, but I doubt that there's no money channel to himself, his party, or someone about whom he cares enough to sell out Her Majesty's subjects in favor of the money.
... in a political backlash.
so most of these statements are just noise.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
What colour is the sky on this guy's planet??
He has drunk far too much of the copyright cartel's Kool-Aid. In what reality does copyright infringment result in JAIL TIME? In a world where custodial sentences are increasingly being reserved only for violent offences? Maybe this tory crook thinks that copyright infringement is a violent assault against the oversized profits of buggy-whip makers?
The notion that businesses with bad or obsolete business models should have the right to claim that newer and better businesses should prop up their businesses for them is scandalous, and a terrible precedent to set.
Next thing you know, he'll be demanding that buggy-whip makers will be entitled to tell car makers how they must support buggy-whip makers, etc etc.
It reflects the arrogance and studied cluelessness of his conservative milieu. Outrageous.
they should pay to make their own service worse out of their own pocket
Because if you copy something, you haven't stolen jack shit, you've CREATED a new copy.
Of course, they've TAKEN the public domain then created a new copy of it THEN MADE IT THEIR PROPERTY. If you want to feel like calling copyright offences theft, then you need to look at the industry itself: it's BASED on theft. And why should those thieves get to profit from their theft?
Hmm?
I'll torrent via the UK link of my VPN to give them some work to do.
The UK's top IP advisor has published recommendations on how Internet service providers should deal with online piracy. Among other things, he suggested that Internet services should search for and filter infringing content proactively.
Now, does the top IP advisor who hasn't been bought and paid for by the media industry/conglomerates have anything to add? ......*crickets chirping*.....
Yeah, didn't think so.
By strange coincidence, a politician who wants ISPs to pay for the job the film and music industry should do if they want, is paid by: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/...
Name of donor: Motion Picture Licensing Co Ltd
and
Name of donor: CASBAA (Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia)
Take Nobody's Word For It.
That this twat is a whore for the Copyright industry
Good luck... always one step ahead.
all your problems are solved, people never go hungry, everybody is happy and healthy and employed, schoolchildren get top marks, there are no murders, robberies, or other (real) crimes, and the environment is in top shape........... and that the only thing left for government and politicians to care about is online piracy...
It is not useless, as it will cause (re)loads for the advertisement banners. There is no other purpose for that, as nobody will sit and wait on top of page for new items.
So when will media companies and governments that pass bad copyright laws get educated on ethics.
With the stories today I'm sometimes not sure if I should attribute to April Fools and other stories I just wish I could attribute to April Fools...
By using their standards if you could sue the gov because you or a loved one got in an accident on the M1.
Obviously the government provided that road, they should also be responsible for stopping accidents proactively.
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Fuck the UK.
Fuck their queen, fuck their bad teeth, fuck their gun laws, fuck their holding Assange
hostage.
FUCK them.
What business would ever actively drop their own paying customers? Makes no sense.
Oh gosh, it sure took me a while to get it, but I finally did! This one is a doozey!
HAHA HAHA HAHA This is hilarious. So many amazing prank articles out today and this one is the best!
The UK's top IP advisor has published recommendations on how Internet service providers should deal with online piracy. Among other things, it's suggested that Internet services should search for and filter infringing content proactively. According to the report ISPs have a moral obligation to do more against online piracy.
uk-flagMike Weatherley, a Conservative MP and Intellectual Property Adviser to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, has pushed various copyright related topics onto the political agenda since early last year.
Previously Weatherley suggested that search engines should blacklist pirate sites, kids should be educated on copyright ethics, and that persistent file-sharers should be thrown in jail.
In his latest proposal the UK MP targets information society service providers (ISSPs) including ISPs, who he believes could do more to fight piracy. The just-released 18-page report stresses that these companies have a moral obligation to tackle copyright infringement and can’t stand idly by.
The report (pdf) draws on input from various pro-copyright groups including the MPAA, BPI, and the Music Publishers Association. It offers various recommendations for the UK Government and the EU Commission to strengthen their anti-piracy policies.
One of the key points is to motivate Internet services and providers to filter content proactively. According to the report it’s feasible to “filter out infringing content” and to detect online piracy before it spreads.
The UK Government should review these systems and see what it can do to facilitate cooperation between copyright holders and Internet service providers.
“There should be an urgent review, by the UK Government, of the various applications and processes that could deliver a robust automated checking process regarding illegal activity being transmitted,” Weatherley advises.
In a related effort, Weatherley notes that Internet services should not just remove the content they’re asked to, but also police their systems to ensure that similar files are removed, permanently.
“ISSPs to be more proactive in taking down multiple copies of infringing works, not just the specific case they are notified of,” he recommends.
“This would mean ISSPs actively taking down multiple copies of the same work which are hosted on its services, not just the individual copy which is subject to the complaint. The MPA believe this principle could be extended further still to ensure that all copies of the infringing work are not just taken down,” Weatherley explains.
This type of filtering is already used by YouTube, which takes down content based on fingerprint matches. However, the report suggests that regular broadband providers could also filter infringing content.
Concluding, Weatherley admits that it’s all too easy to simply demand that ISPs take the role of policemen, but at the same time he stresses that they have a “moral responsibility” to do more.
The UK MP presents an analogy of a landlord whose property is used for illegal activities. The landlord cannot be held liable for these activities, but he may have to take action if a third-party reports it.
“If the landlord is told that the garage is being used for illegal activity, and that this information is from a totally reliable source, then does the landlord have a moral obligation to report it?”
“I would argue that it is the duty of every citizen or company to do what they can to stop illegal activity and therefore the answer is, yes, the landlord should report the activity,” Weatherley notes.
Weatherley also believes that protecting the rights of copyright holders has priority over a “no monitoring” principle that would ensure users’ privacy. That is, if the monitoring is done right.
“There is also the question as to whether society will want to have their private activities monitored (even if automatic
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