TMG chose to go after pirates
The majors of film and music have chosen their technical service provider in the fight against online piracy. TMG will monitor four P2P networks and conduct surveys of 25,000 offenses per day.
The formalization was in full Midem, the international music market, which takes place in Cannes from 24 to 27 January. Trident Media Guard (TMG) has been chosen by the music industry (1) and film to address violations of copyright on the Internet as part of the Hadopi law. Civil Society of Phonographic Producers (SCPP) and the Association against audiovisual piracy (ALPA) have confirmed this information by phone.
TMG was competing with Advestigo, partner of the first hour of the music industry. "We opted for its technical superiority and its guarantees in terms of reliability, said Marc Guez, managing director of the SCPP. We must ensure that the risk of error when detecting a fake file is almost zero. "
The company, located in the Nantes region, already be working on behalf of some record companies as part of traffic monitoring P2P networks. She will soon have the aim of meeting the IP addresses of Internet users caught downloading illegal, then send that information to the Hadopi (2). But not right away.
The Alpa and SCPP have yet to submit their case to the CNIL for approval. But the National Commission on Informatics and Freedoms will not go ahead until you have read the latest decrees of the Hadopi law.
According to Marc Guez, "this could happen at the end of January. The CNIL then two months to respond to requests. It is unclear how the early warning messages out prior April. " A date which coincides with the schedule announced by the Ministry of Culture.
Four P2P networks under surveillance
In the case presented by the SCPP to the CNIL, it is expected that TMG site supervised four P2P networks, the most active. 10,000 songs (5,000 new, 5,000 from the back catalog) will be on the radar of the company will conduct the survey of 25,000 offenses per day, maximum, on behalf of the music industry (excluding statements for the cinema).
These data will be transmitted to the SCPP, which shall examine human, before passing to the HADOPI, who will send warning messages. Service providers involved at this time to provide the addresses of the owners of Internet IP addresses identified by TMG. The number of messages sent is not known, but the Ministry of Culture conjured up to 10,000 alerts a day.
Monitoring will not stop to P2P. "An initial assessment will be made after one year, and we can expand our system to other platforms to reflect changes in usage. Our provider, TMG, knows how to do, "warns Marc Guez, without specifying the platforms involved. Streaming, file hosters (type Rapishare) or newsgroups are in the crosshairs.
The recording industry also hopes to extend its anti-piracy arsenal in the coming months. The Hadopi law provides for the testing of the filter. And to Marc Guez, this is a priority for this year: "We did lab tests, taking into account the constraints of ISP, and the results are inconclusive. "
Service providers will be sought "before the end of the first quarter," says the CEO of the SCPP. Between their collaboration with the Hadopi and implementation of screening tests, the program will be a busy ISP.
(1) SCPP, SPPF, SACEM, SDRM.
(2) High Authority for the dissemination of works and protection of rights on the Internet.
Sources: 01net
