Ron Schenone

Your ISP To Be The Next Music Copyright Cops

Posted by on Feb 13, 2009 | 4 Comments

The music industry is at it once again. They have sued college students, teenagers, and even a dead woman in their attempt to stop music piracy. Now they are turning to the ISP’s across the land and want them to be the new copyright police. It seems that music piracy is at an all time high and nothing seems to stem the tide. But by having ISP’s warn customers that piracy is illegal and that their accounts could be shut down, the music folks are hoping to put a stop at piracy.

According to an article over at Bloomberg it states that:

Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group and Sony Music Entertainment have gained leverage through court and government actions to pressure ISPs into warning customers not to steal music — in some cases with a threat to cut service. Crowded networks are helping to soften U.S. and European access providers’ resistance to working with record companies.

I seriously doubt that this new tactic is going to be successful. Music piracy will continue no matter what the music folks believe.

What do you think?

Comments welcome.

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  • Padraig Fahy

    Yeah..It has hit here…Eircom (which is Ireland’s main ISP) has already been in action for about a week and I have warned people in my schoo bout it…Its realli terrifing

  • Brian Mckay

    I’ve always had the problem of not being able to find an out of print CD. Oh I may find it on E-bay or Amazon at a ridiculously high price (Robin Gibb CD for $300,00). So ,if the artist or the record company refuses to re-issue the CD, where is the problem of me burning it from the old vinyl record I have and sharing it. The artist wasn’t getting any royalties to begin with because no one could buy the cd anywhere. I agree that newer music should not be shared, but anything over , say 10 years, copyright should expire. Elvis still gets royalties and he’s dead!
    I guess the next thing will be the used music stores and used book stores. Garage sale police are just around the corner!

  • Jes

    Might as well simply switch to free music. There is tons of it. Simply boycott all big label music. They push half talents at us with tons of money thereby creating what is ‘popular’. Yet people with insane amounts of talent go unnoticed because the mass of consumers are still ignorant that they exist.

    Leave the big mp3 for a dollar shops alone, you’re feeding the beast. Start using the websites that offer free downloads from up and coming artists….and if you must listen to biug label music, setup accounts at one of the many ‘play similar music’ web radio stations.

    And when you pay for music… pay the artist not the labels.
    They charge less and it pays them more than the label will pay them. Refuse to buy from artists who will not sell direct or at least through a small commission site (of which there are many).

    This is one case where the consumer is their own problem. Stop paying and start getting legal free music. The companies will have to change their models or fade away.

  • http://www.faultywires.com Jacknife

    as long as nobody gets after Utorrent, beacuse some people like myself use it LEAGALLY, and i would hate if that gets taken down.