Leaked IFPI Report Details Anti-Piracy Strategy
  • squashedsquashed
    "IFPI has inadvertently made available its own confidential internal
    report, penned by none other than IFPI's chief anti-piracy officer,
    which details its strategy against online piracy
    for major recording labels across the globe. The document, 30-pages
    long, talks about file sharing sites, torrents, cyberlockers, phishing
    attacks, expectations from Internet service providers,
    mp3 sites and a lot more. The document is a global view representation
    of IFPI's 'problems,' 'current and future threats,' and the industry's
    responses to them."



    A few tactics: shutting down music services, requiring file lockers
    filter uploads or be shut down (interesting, since the DMCA's one good
    provision is the safe harbor, and proactive filtering could mean losing
    that protection), lobbying for DNS blocking legislation, pressuring ISPs
    into extra-legally enforcing their will, disrupting payment processing
    for pirate sites through blacklists, and providing "training built
    around 'real world' experiences and challenges rather than focusing on
    theory" on copyright law to judges and legal bodies.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/25/1639234/leaked-ifpi-report-details-anti-piracy-strategy

    sooner or later the internet will catalog all these people who are involved. Names, location, etc.
    also. I didn't even know UK still have a major label.... who are this IFPI actually representing? this would be very interesting, sooner or later it's only Universal that is left standing. than it's pure global monopoly by single company.


  • squashedsquashed
    The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland. It operates a Secretariat based in London, with regional offices in Brussels, Hong Kong and Miami.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Federation_of_the_Phonographic_Industry

    WTF is PHONOGRAPHIC????!!! what year is this? 1934?

    This is like horse buggy industry trying to dictate the production and use of global automobile... or kiting and balloon clubs trying to insist regulating international space launch.

    Hello? can anybody tell me what is phonography? Somebody should really look into this if they are actually legal or not...

    There definitely need to be name list to expose the deep corruption.
  • muruchmuruch
    IFPI were behind most of the Google blog deletions a few years ago (check the old locked thread for more info), they not only rep UK labels but UK distribution of American labels, including "indie" labels.
  • squashedsquashed
    They seems rooted in medieval system, where a king gives a guild monopoly power to certain craft. In return the King taxes them.

    In modern time, it's industry cartel that pays to politicians. In return politicians pays back by pushing dubious laws contrary to public interest.

    What intrigue me is how secretive, non transparent these organisations are, specially for something that can pass numerous legislation innitiative globally. (3 strike out, ISP monitoring, anti torrent, etc)

    I am sure when somebody dig deep it's money laundering, tax evasion, corruption, political kickback...etc (seriously, the US branch of this thing is manned by political hacks, no movie/music/performance art background. As a whole the activities are pure political extortion/slushfund organisation.) I can only imagine what kind of assholes are manning the european version.

    I am surprise nobody has dump their entire digital communications on the net to reveal the deep corruption.
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