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IFPI continues to pressure ISPs to act as Internet police |
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13.05.2008. |
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Despite the criticism and negative reaction of the ISPs in
several countries, IFPI continues to pressure them in turning themselves into
Internet police. Following Denmark,
Norway and Ireland, it is
the turn of the Swedish ISPs to be the target of the association.
What IFPI asks is for ISPs to restrict their customers' access to
websites allegedly facilitating copyright infringement. As until now it
had little success in its discussions with the ISPs, IFPI has decided
to use legal pressure. "We believe that ISPs have a special part to
play in this and must help us. The discussions we've tried to have with
the ISPs haven't led anywhere" said IFPI's Managing Director in Sweden,
Lars Gustafsson.
According to Gustaffson, the focus will be on one particular company
that allegedly facilitates filesharing on the Internet and one of the
services they are after is The PirateBay. IFPI has already sent out letters to several service providers, asking them to monitor their customers and to filter websites.
However, most ISPs have refused to cooperate with the IFPI. Telia Sonera, a large Swedish ISP considered such actions are illegal under EU law and Norwegian ISPs had the same response.
IFPI argue that restricting access to filesharing sites might be to the
advantage of ISPs. "Illegal P2P file-sharing may have helped drive
broadband subscriptions in the past, yet today these activities,
particularly in respect of movies, are hogging bandwidth," they state.
Until now, IFPI obtained a victory in February in Denmark when Tele2
was order by the court to block its customers' access to The PirateBay
but the decision is now under appeal and the PirateBay has announced
its intention to ask for compensation.
IFPI to Sue Swedish ISP for Facilitating Copyright Infringement (2.05.2008)
Swedish ISP Refuses To Block The Pirate Bay (27.03.2008)
EDRI-gram: Setback for IFPI in its case against PirateBay (23.04.2008)
Source: EDRI-gram - "IFPI continues to pressure ISPs to act as Internet police" Number. 6.9, 7 May, 2008.
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