Japanese ISPs create plan to block P2P and pirate related traffic
Comcast love to be able to do this. Japanese ISPs under pressure from the music and movie industries have created a plan to block all pirate and P2P (peer to peer) related traffic on its networks.
A similar plan was tried back in 2006 but that didn’t work out as planned because the Japanese government stepped in, saying that the monitoring violated privacy policies.
Now a new plan may be instituted because the ISPs are under increased pressure from the music and movie industries to do something about all the illegal file sharing taking place.
The agreement between the ISPs and various copyright right holders would use what is only referred to as “special detection software” to track down those sharing files; the ISPs would then notify the user of the infringement.
Torrentfreak reports that with the first offense an email stating a warning will be sent and if the activities continue would interrupt the Internet connection. Continued violations would be dealt with by canceling the subscriber’s account.
A majority of the Japanese ISPs are on board with the plan and a meeting in April will decide exactly how all of this will operate.
Proposals of this sort are also on the table in France, the UK and Australia. It may be a losing battle as file sharing continues to go up across the board. One way or another, the community will find a way around measures that governments and ISPs decide to take.
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March 21st, 2008
It might be a good idea, just to help the various regimes and companies understand the reality that when the product consists of ones and zeros, obsolete business models are just that – obsolete.
Trying to apply them – or antiquated legislative instruments – to any product that can be downloaded by anyone with a modem is kind of like your mom bringing out your first pair of baby shoes and insisting that you put them on your all-grown-up feet!
While it is popular, on both sides of the question, to get into arguments that are based on abstracts and intangibles, the kernel of the issue does not really have anything to do with differences in the way cultures perceive questions of “intellectual property” and the like, or whether such concepts even make it to a particular cultural radar, much less which way of viewing any given thing is “better” than someone else’s way.
In other words, it is not about what you or I consider to be “right” or “wrong,” it is about facts and reality.
Sometimes, it is the regimes, corporations, et al who apprise us of a new technology, a new reality, generally in the form of a new product. It is through them that we learn, for example, that we do not have to remain tethered to a plastic-cased spiral cord to talk on the telephone, or wait an hour to cook a potato. It is they who educate us about the fact that we can take our telephones with us in our cars, that a frozen dinner will require only ten minutes or so in a microwave.
But in this case, it is the “common people” who have learned about and adapted to the new reality. It has become a commonplace aspect of our lives, as taken for granted as electric lighting, while the regimes and the corporations are still floundering around like so many displaced trout, flopping themselves everywhere but back into the reality of water which they could breathe.
Advances in technology have always meant both opportunities and challenges for business, and the reality of all those ones and zeros swimming serenely around “cyber-space” is no exception.
The challenge will be stepping up with the vision to see and seize the opportunities!