Piracy: and elsewhere?

Visions according to different states and can change relatively quickly. A quick tour in March 21.

For the

Ireland:
Irish Internet users should soon taste the "French model" - two warnings and then cutting off the Internet - according to the website Irish RTÉ . The ISP has agreed to provide Irish companies drive the IP addresses of all Internet users who download (download) or offer for download (upload) on p2p networks files protected by copyright as a result of an agreement amicably ending a process oposant to the four majors of the music industry (EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner), who hold 90% of the music market in Ireland. Eircom has also agreed to implement the graduated response system. The system should be established following the principle in three steps planned by the French government.

United States:
Professional associations for many years multiplied lawsuits against Internet users and asked for substantial damages.
In December, the American Association of Phonographic Industry (RIAA) had indicated that it would stop filing complaints against P2Pistes, and she prepared to implement the three strikes in the United States. In reality, the story seems quite different.
In view of recent announcements of job cuts in anti-piracy services to the RIAA, we realized that in reality, if the complaints were interrupted, is that the majors have closed the valve that allowed subsidies the lobby to pay armies of lawyers. He also appeared very quickly that American ISPs loins were eager to share the RIAA to suspend access to their Internet customers upon termination. If record companies want to implement the graduated response is that it is an expeditious method much cheaper than the traditional reliance justice.
However, at the failure of ISPs to cooperate as she had desired, the RIAA refiles complaints, contrary to what it had announced. But this time, in dribs and drabs. So with even less chance than before of efficiency.

Italy:
January 20, a cooperation agreement was signed between France and Italy to set up a control system similar to Hadopi

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United States:
After months of pressure, the British government did not ultimately require all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to adopt the national strikes in the fight against illegal downloading. "We can not have a system where one speaks of arresting teenagers in their bedroom, "said today, David Lammy, the British minister in charge of intellectual property, in the columns of the Times . In April, Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture ISPs threatened to legislate, by spring 2009, the establishment of a graduated response system if they do not apply them quickly themselves. In June, Virgin Media was the first to volunteer. At its subscribers whose IP address was suspected of downloading content protected by copyright, the ISP therefore agreed to send a first warning letter. The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) was responsible for the second. Also an educational message, the British association of music publishers invited parents to download Digital File Check, a software that they think of to clean up music files from one computer and uninstall software peer-to -peer. If a new offense was found, he was then scheduled disconnection and an action. David Lammy, it should not be confused organized counterfeiting and illegal downloading as practiced by today's youth. "People can rent a room in a hotel and go with the soap - it is a big difference between leaving with a soap and leaving with the television. "A declaration, and an image, which rebounded players in the music industry. "The cost of stealing a soap in a hotel might be small, but if seven million people flew soaps all year, what happens in the music industry, I'm sure the chains hotel would react, "has answered one of them.

Germany:
"I do not think" Olivennes "is a model for Germany or even the whole of Europe." We owe this statement to Brigitte Zypries, Federal Minister of Justice. Earlier this week, the latter gene is expressed against the establishment of a graduated response system against illegal downloading on the Internet, reports the blog Spreeblick .
"I think that blocking access to the Internet is a punishment totally unacceptable. It would be constitutionally and politically very difficult, "said Zypries.
For his part, Stefan Michalk, the federal union of the music industry, lamented that "there is in Germany that this issue does not advance" while "more and more countries of the EU in the world are issuing warnings in connection with sanctions an effective means to curb Internet piracy »

Sweden:
The Swedes have adopted, mid February, a tougher law against illegal downloading on the Internet, which will take effect April 1. According to the new legislative, ISPs will be obliged to bring to justice the IP address of the computer used to download illegally. Holders of copyrights and neighboring rights (producers) can thus obtain the identity of offenders provided to prove that the address of the computer was used to divert or files that are the subject of a claim. Moreover, the Swedish law limits to a single private copy of a CD.
Sweden has therefore rejected the device of "flexible response" of suspending the membership of Internet users. This device is the heart of the Creation and Internet law that the French Parliament will consider as of March 10. In an opinion piece in the newspaper Dagbladet venska S, the Swedish minister of Culture and Justice justified their rejection of the "three strikes" in holding that the sanction to the "powerful effects (...) could have serious repercussions in a society where Internet access is an imperative right for social inclusion. "

Those who hesitate

New Zealand:
The proposed three strikes has been a major campaign of opposition, the government has postponed the implementation of the system in late March in hopes of reaching a compromise.

Those who do otherwise

Belgium:
the! Belgium in 2008 tried to block outright peer to peer networks: the court ordered the ISP Scarlet to prevent its customers from accessing it. After several trials, the company concluded that the technical impossibility of blocking, and must be considered on appeal this year.

Denmark:
A similar decision in Denmark led the main provider of the country to preemptively block the access of its subscribers to the site The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent links directory.

Switzerland:
Representatives of rightholders recognized contact downloaders to offer them a settlement, which has caused controversy.

But the system remains the most original of the Isle of Man. This tiny tax haven of 80,000 residents, located in the Irish Sea and is attached to the British crown, must establish a global license required: in return for a tax on all Internet subscriptions, residents of The island can freely download all the music of their choice. The mandatory nature of the measure has angered residents, unaccustomed to paying taxes.