james holden

The IFPI and MPA have produced a code of conduct which they hope ISPs will adopt. Some highlights are:

• “remove references and links to sites or services that do not respect the copyrights of rights holders”
• “require subscribers to consent in advance to the disclosure of their identity in response to a reasonable complaint of intellectual property infringement by an established right holder defence organisation or by right holder(s) whose intellectual property is being infringed”
• terminate contracts of recidivist
• implement instant messaging to communicate with infringers
• implement filtering technologies to block sites that are ’substantially dedicated to illegal file sharing or download services
• voluntarily store data for copyright enforcement…
• To enforce terms of service that prohibit a subscriber from operating a server, or from consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities

Obviously, any ISP adopting the code of conduct will be committing commercial suicide. Wishful thinking, I believe it’s called.
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