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.

Comments

Moral obligation?

[ashkante]

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.

Re:Moral obligation?

[Anonymous Coward]

ISPs have just as much moral obligation to filter pirate content as IP holders & lawmakers have moral obligation to make all IP go into the public domain within 5 years.

Re: Moral obligation?

[Dan1701]

Britain is currently about to have a general election, at the start of May. We apologise for the loss of sanity and indeed coherence from our political classes; they are currently competing to see who can be the most entertainingly inventive liars.

Normal service will be resumed mid-May.

My two cents

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

uk the country of spies

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Educate kids on the ethice.

[serviscope_minor]

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.

Re:Piracy will not cease

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, where IS that evidence?

Go on, all you did was tell us to look at it, you never supplied.

Why not look at the greatest "pirates" were the biggest buyers, or how when the biggest filesharing network was canned, the increase in revenue by the music industry fell into a decline within six months.

How about we look at that evidence?

Not to mention the evidence that the "IP industry" have already broken the contract, so I feel no obligation to feel the slightest twinge of guilt at their "loss" even if it killed the entire set of intellectual property and dropped millions into poverty.

I completely agree

[Alain Williams]

Also:

• * the post office should also check every parcel
• * the train company to check that no passenger is a crook travelling to do a robbery
• * bakeries that no one buying buns is going to put poison in them and so kill old ladies
• * clothing shops that no one buying a mac is a flasher

The word will be a safer place if everyone checked that their customers were innocent!