IP Advisor: Hold ISPs Responsible For Facilitating Piracy

[silicon_toad2000]

http://torrentfreak.com/ip-advisor-hold-isps-responsible-for-facilitating-piracy-131226/

Weatherley begins by touching on the complex issue of content licensing and the domestic issues raised by the Hargreaves Review. However, he soon moves on to what many believe is one of the main drivers of infringement over the past decade – a failure by content distributors to move forward with technology.

“At the end of the day, the creative industry must take responsibility for its failure to keep pace with the digital age. Technology will always open up new ways to access content. If creators do not begin to embrace these technologies they will lose out, and by default, the market will be dictated by ‘open rights’ interest groups. The creative industry alone is responsible for not evolving fast enough. The music industry, for example, has spent years saying ‘no’ instead of ‘how?’,” Weatherley says.

Interestingly, the MP also says that the creative industries are very good at talking to themselves but notes they are doing little to educate the public and are even “losing the propaganda war.”

“In 2010, at the UN Worldwide Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius (Lithuania) it was shocking to see that no one from either industry or government was present to make a case for supporting the protection of IP rights. The Pirate Party, however, was there in full force arguing that all content should be made available for free,” Weatherley notes.

Echoing growing sentiments of many in the digital domain, the MP says that the “efficient and plausible way forward” would see the industry not only educating consumers but meeting their demands by offering “simple, affordable and legal access” to copyright-protected works.

“Proponents of piracy say downloading content legally is too complicated. Industry, therefore, needs to find innovative ways to ensure that content is easily available and in so doing make piracy a less attractive option. We need to let go of old dogma and identify and further develop new, workable solutions, Weatherley says...

...“Government must back up industry by putting the necessary enforcement mechanisms into place. This would include holding Internet Service Providers responsible if they knowingly facilitate illegal downloading practices and do not take steps to stop this form of piracy,” the MP states.

[White Stripes]

considering all the different ways to send a file over the net theres no way the ISPs can catch everything....

[GhostShip]

There is no propaganda war they have shot themselves in the foot too many times and everyone knows what "the creative industry" are about, ripping off the actual creators and trying to find new ways to fiddle the accounts, copyright terms are so over broad the public has lost respect for the law and spoken aloud that greed and selfishness should not be the arbiter of culture, I personally don't give a hoot how much tax the govt loses because the honest facts are folks shouldn't be paying tax on material over 50 years old, they need to drop this copyright tax dodge and then folks might have some respect for the currently broken deal that has been thrown yoke-like upon the masses at the behest of selfish vested interests, if you don't want to share once your copyright period is up then expect to be treated the same way you are treating your fans, badly.