IFPI: "Three strikes" efforts hit worldwide home run - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Aug 08
  

  Jonathan Bailey

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  Gerhard Stoltz
  • In most versions of the idea, rights-holders have primary responsibility for policing their content on P2P networks, but when they turn IP address information over to ISPs, the ISPs assume the duty of notifying subscribers about the alleged infringement. In France, the plan is to escalate enforcement such that the ISP would cut off Internet access after three violations on the same account.
  • Governments seem to like throwing content owners and ISPs into a room and demanding that they work out some solution (often under threat that the government will simply legislate one otherwise)
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  • • But it also raises questions. Among them was one raised by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, an expert on copyright and cyberspace law, who asked why this approach would be limited to copyright, and why only to specific industries. If enacted, would the same procedure eventually expand to include online libel claims, for instance? What about all other online problems? And who adjudicates these claims? What if users say they aren't guilty?
    • not surprisingly for an IFPI attorney, Perlmutter also doesn't think that graduated response is enough. ISP filtering, she says, needs to stay on the table.

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