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UK IP Chief Wants ISPs To Police Piracy Proactively

Posted by Soulskill on from the he-believes-in-intellectual-property dept.

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.

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  1. Moral obligation? by ashkante · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Moral obligation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    2. Re: Moral obligation? by Dan1701 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

  2. Re:Seeing as UK police do little else by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    IP is worth approximate a jillion times more than the total value of all physical goods sold for the entire existence of humans on this planet, so yes, it should be the priority of every single human being on the planet to ensure every copy is paid for.

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  3. I completely agree by Alain+Williams · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!