Sgams used our newssubmit to tell us that the Motion Picture Association of America, (MPAA) is currently asking ISPs to join their fight against movie piracy.
The organistation has sent out more than 100,000 legal notices '” cease and desist letters '” to ISPs ordering them to contact persons unlawfully downloading films and that's not enough:
But the MPAA wants to push ISPs to police their servers and comb for illegal files that might exist. |
"My understanding is that these cease and desist letters that are being sent out are not being sent out targeting specific material, but instead are being sent out in general," said Marc Greenberg, director of the Intellectual Property Law Program at Golden Gate University. "[They're] saying, 'You might have something on your site, so stop broadcasting it and go and find it.'"
And that isn't the job of an ISP, Wells says.
"I don't think that ISPs should be without some responsibility, but I think to whatever extent the MPAA would like to shift that burden entirely over to the ISP, I don't think that's appropriate either," Wells said.
Well the ISPs are the ones that can stop filesharing for a while, but the MPAA forgets that people will find new methods of filesharing and will probably come up with encrypted networks, and there might come a time, when it can't be stopped at all anymore...
Source: ABCnews.com
