EU Parliament Warns Against ISP Monitoring In Music Piracy Fight
This could put the cat amongst the pigeons. European Parliament members have voted in favour of outlawing the kind of ISP disconnection policy the French government introduced to fight illegal music downloads. French socialist Guy Bono’s proposed bill on safeguarding cultural products, drafted in September, had made clear: “Criminalising consumers so as to combat digital piracy is not the right solution” - but the music industry had lobbied to introduce an amend calling for ISP-level filtering.
The report was voted for by a large majority yesterday - but with a counter-amendment, adopted 314 to 297, calling on the European Commission and individual countries to “avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights ... such as the interruption of internet access”. A jubilant Bono: “The repressive measures are measures dictated by industries that have been unable to change their business models to meet the needs imposed by the information society.” Much more detail and analysis at our sister site paidContent:UK...
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May 1, 2008 3:51 PM
The three strikes will only increase the use of free public, or pay for, VPN servers, to bypass ISP monitoring. Politicians keep thinking up these daft, not fully thought through ideas. Like my PC DVD drive is now locked in the wrong region, so I’ve had to return legitimate box sets, whilst Sunday market replacements play fine. Bypssing ISP’s with VPN connections, and onion servers, will only make law enforcement. whether against terrorists or kiddie porn, much more difficult. And who is going to pay for it? Innocent users, the computer literate are going to bypass such restrictive measures.