Hollywood Wants Hosting Providers To Block Referral Traffic From Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com)

The US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator is working hard to update his copyright enforcement plans. In a written submission, Hollywood's MPAA shared a few notable ideas. The group calls for more cooperation from Internet services, including hosting providers, who should filter infringing content and block referral traffic from pirate sites, among other things. From a report: Besides processing takedown notices and terminating repeat infringers, as they are required to do by law, the MPAA also wants hosting companies to use automated piracy filters on their servers. "Hosting providers should filter using automated content recognition technology; forward DMCA notices to users, terminate repeat infringers after receipt of a reasonable number of notices, and prevent re-registration by terminated users," the MPAA suggests.

In addition, hosting providers should not challenge suspension court orders, when copyright holders go up against pirate sites. Going a step further, hosts should keep an eye on high traffic volumes which may be infringing, and ban referral traffic from pirate sites outright. The MPAA wants these companies to "implement download bandwidth or frequency limitations to prevent high volume traffic for particular files" to "remove files expeditiously" and "block referral traffic from known piracy sites."

Comments

Re:Meh

[mysidia]

The pirate sites just need to add one bit of HTML code....

<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />

Modern browsers will then be redirected to send no HTTP Referrer header.

Alternatively, HTTPS could be used, and with HTTPS Referrer is suppressed, because sending it could result in a security violation for the referring domain (a HTTPS URL may contain secret content/values).

Re:Meh

[Kjella]

And even if you know nothing about that technical mumbo-jumbo, pirate sites can just write the link as text and ask users to copy-paste. But Hollywood doesn't care whether it's feasible, they just want to whine themselves to more laws written in their favor. Fortunately Internet providers, hosts and services are now so essential that they don't get what they want.