The verdict on the Pirate Bay Trial is out: Guilty. Big Media Corporations claim it a victory over piracy even as they know they can never truly stop sharing of copyright content. Its just about awareness and pushing it to the margins of society. The question for users of such services is: How does this effect the service itself?
Thankfully Pirate Bay is not being taken down entirely and such is unlikely to happen. However the IFPI and the MPAA are already taking the battle to another front. They are now targeting the guardians who control the gateway to the internet: the ISPs.
Complete throttling of torrent traffic will not be accepted nor can be accomplished in most democratic parts of the world but if the Big Media have their way they would like the ISP's to scan every files for traces of copyrighted material not realising the technological overload of such an act.
Also given the economical cost of such an exercise, the ISPs may not be willing to be participants in such an act. This will also require laws which give ISPs the authorisation to invade a user's privacy. This wil also be quite easily combated in the near future when bandwidth will more than double users will simply switch to secure networks to protect their privacy.
However if they are able to force P2P trackers to divulge information and obtain IP address this could be then used to track the neccessary culprits with the help of ISPs.
While Big Media seems ready to go to any length to combat piracy I fear for their short term gains they might end up creating a dsytopian society by wrongful use of technology.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
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