Kyle SGMS used our newssubmit to tell us that Yaoo reports that media firms lobby piracy controls to EU. In short they want that every optical disc made in the European Union should carry a code so the originater can be identified.
This should stop professional pirates who use factories to duplicate copyrighted CDs and DVDs. Using this new code it would be easier to track them down:
Along with the unique code, called a Source Identification Code, the groups want more power to retrieve information that would help them identify the original manufacturer or distributor of the infringing goods. |
Other measures in the proposals include "genuinely deterrent penalties," a reasonable presumption of copyright ownership to avoid delays in court proceedings that in some cases allow pirates to escape justice, and more powers by copyright holders to seize and preserve evidence of piracy.
To back up their demands, the media groups claim that counterfeiting and piracy of copyrighted works "feeds a growing black economy in which criminal networks use piracy to fund other activities such as drug dealing, arms trading, money laundering and terrorism."
Dara MacGreevy, vice president of the MPA, said the measures are necessary to tackle a convergence of Internet piracy and physical piracy fueled by the falling cost of disc-duplication technology.
The article also clearly states that it would not allow to track users, just the business where the disc was replicated.
Read the entire story on Yahoo here.
Source: Yahoo.com
