ISP self-regulation proposal entertainment industry FOR EU

The industry demands that providers "remove references and links to sites or services that do not respect the copyrights of rights holders". Providers should also collectively adopt new terms and conditions, to 'require subscribers to consent in advance to the disclosure of their identity in response to a reasonable complaint of intellectual property infringement by an established right holder defence organisation or by right holder(s) whose intellectual property is being infringed,' thus overruling the essential privacy-protection of internet subscribers and without mentioning any right of reply.

The copyright industry doesn't stop there. It also wants providers to develop 'prototype instant messaging language directed at infringers' and a termination of contract for 'recidivists'. Just in case the EU doesn't introduce mandatory data retention, in spite of the repeated lobby of MPAA and IFPI, the providers should voluntarily preserve data/evidence necessary to enforce copyright. And if that isn't enough, ISPs should implement filtering technology to block services and sites that are 'substantially dedicated to illegal file sharing or download services.'


http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number3.7/takedown