[ NNSquad ] Re: Entertainment Industry Asks White House for Vast New Internet Monitoring, Filtering, and Takedown Powers

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:22:44 -0400
From: Art Brodsky <abrodsky@publicknowledge.org>
Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] Entertainment Industry Asks White House for Vast New 
	Internet Monitoring, Filtering, and Takedown Powers

Hi, Lauren,

And on the other side of this discussion:

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2970

rgds,

Art

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> wrote:

>
>
>          Entertainment Industry Asks White House for Vast New
>          Internet Monitoring, Filtering, and Takedown Powers
>
>             http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000699.html
>
>
> Greetings.  In a solicited filing with the new White House Office of
> Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, seven entertainment
> industry groups including the RIAA, MPAA, SAG, and others, have asked
> the federal government to implement a sweeping new regime of ISP and
> privately-based monitoring, filtering, blocking, and reporting of
> presumed copyrighted materials, plus explicitly accuses search
> engines, ad networks, domain name registrars, proxy services, and
> other basic Internet infrastructure providers of being complicit in
> illegal activities.
>
> Just three of the more notable bullet points:
>
> # The federal government encourage ISPs to use, and companies to
>  develop, monitoring, filtering, blocking, scanning and throttling
>  technologies to combat the flow of unauthorized material online;
>
> # Copyright holders be able to combat infringement by making a
>  database of their works available to service providers, rather than
>  submitting individual takedown notices. And once a work is taken down,
>  service providers should be expected to employ "reasonable efforts" to
>  prohibit users from uploading or even linking to them again;
>
> # Copyright owners be able to block unauthorized streams of live
>  broadcasts without going through the formal notice-and-takedown
>  process
>
> The entire document makes for some interesting reading.  I don't
> necessarily recommend perusing it on a full stomach, however.
> You can download the doc from:
>
> http://bit.ly/cVzcPK  (Lauren's Blog)
>
> Intellectual property theft is a serious problem.  But attempts to
> remake the Internet into a preemptive automatic content blocking
> machine, where the concepts of users' privacy, due process, and fair
> use vanish into the ether, must be vigorously resisted.
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein
> lauren@vortex.com
> Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
> http://www.pfir.org/lauren
> Co-Founder <http://www.pfir.org/lauren%0ACo-Founder>, PFIR
>   - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
> Co-Founder, NNSquad
>   - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
> Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition
>   for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org
> Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
> Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
> Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
> Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
>
>


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