Andre Yoskowitz
26 Dec 2007 17:53
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has approached EU parliament with recommendations on how to "develop cooperations with ISPs", something that it hopes will lead to P2P filtering and blocked access to torrent sites such The Pirate Bay.
Basically, the IFPI had this in mind; ISPs should use acoustic fingerprinting-based filtering to block any unauthorized music transfers. This would, in effect, filter traffic through P2P apps such as Limewire. ISPs would also be asked to block any BitTorrent traffic.
"It is (...) possible for ISPs to block their customers' access to specific P2P services that are known to be predominantly infringing and that have refused to implement steps to prevent infringement, while not affecting regular services such as web and email."
Finally, ISPs should block all access to "infringing websites" that "refuse to cooperate" with the industry. A few of the sites quoted were Allofmp3.com and The Pirate Bay, a site the IFPI calls "an infamous infringing service locaded in Sweden".
Although this has yet to go anywhere, the EFF is already up in arms calling ISP filtering "an ill-considered and damaging quick fix."
Source:
P2PBLOG