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IIPA Reports Bittorrent Sites and Cyberlockers to US Government engimax, February 14, 2012 IIPA Reports BitTorrent Sites and Cyberlockers To US Government The IIPA, which counts major entertainment groups such as the MPAA and RIAA among its members, has listed many BitTorrent and cyberlocker services in its latest submission to the USTR. Hong Kong based Megaupload neighbor Filesonic is listed as an “infringing distribution hub” while Pirate Bay, isoHunt, Demonoid and others get notable mentions. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has just published its written submission to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative listing countries that it believes should be identified in the annual Special 301, the report that details the “adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection of intellectual property rights.” The IIPA, which counts the Association of American Publishers, BSA, ESA, Independent Film & Television Alliance, MPAA, National Music Publishers’ Association, and the RIAA among its members, has listed its grievances against a whole host of countries. Unsurprisingly, especially given its members’ focus, the main complaints concern movie, music, video game and software piracy. The complaints about infringement in the digital realm are numerous. From the Priority Watch List, the file-sharing focus falls on Canada, China, Russia and Ukraine. Canada According to the IIPA, Canada is “a haven where technologically sophisticated international piracy organizations can operate with virtual impunity in the online marketplace.” This is due, says the group, due to Canada’s reputation for having “weak, ineffective or non-existent” laws to outlaw infringement. The IIPA notes correctly that Canada plays host to large numbers of BitTorrent sites including perhaps its most famous, isoHunt. The group says that the site has “operated with impunity” for more than 8 years despite being the subject of an injunction issued by a U.S. court. Of course, by definition the U.S. is outside Canadian jurisdiction 1 From torrentfreak.com/iipa-reports-bittorrent-sites-and-cyberlockers-to-us-120214/ 14 February 2012 Other major torrent sites mentioned as having “Canadian connections” include KickAssTorrents and Torrentz.eu. It’s also noted that many French language torrent sites are operated from Quebec. File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Canada takes in 2012 Establish clear liability and effective remedies against those who operate illicit file-sharing services, or whose actions are otherwise directed to promoting infringement. Enact strong legal incentives for Internet Service Providers to cooperate with copyright owners in combating online piracy, including by limiting the scope of liability safe harbors in accordance with international best practices. China The IIPA lists the main sources of online piracy as music portal sites, P2P services, deep-linking services (aka search engines), forums/blogs and cyberlockers. File-sharing client Xunlei and other services offered by its operators are mentioned several times. Generally the situation in China has improved over the last 12 months with the IIPA noting that major P2P sites have “cleaned up” their pirated content. Illicit streaming services are described as problematic, as is the increase in consumption of illicit content via cellphones. File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends China takes in 2012 The requests are many, but notably include increasing criminal prosecutions for services such as Xunlei and ‘deep-linking’ search engine operators such as Sohu/Sogou. The IIPA is also calling for China to allow foreign rights holder associations to conduct local anti-piracy investigations, and to lower the threshold for infringement to be considered criminal, to include non-profit copying. Russia The IIPA singles out two BitTorrent trackers as especially problematic – RUTracker.org (the renamed torrent.ru) and GameTorrent, a tracker alleged owned by a Russia national but hosted in Estonia. According to the submission, Russia is home to the “world’s two most prolific criminal release groups” who camcord movies in local theaters and upload them to the Internet. The unnamed groups are said to have been responsible for 77 “exceptional quality” camcorded movies in 2011. A streaming video links site listed as offering such movies is the popular Video2k.tv On the free music front, Russia’s Facebook equivalent, vKontakte, is singled out for criticism, despite apparently responding correctly to takedown demands. “While vKontakte will generally takedown specific content when notified, that is an inappropriate enforcement mechanism for a problem of vKontakte’s own making,” the submission states. 2 From torrentfreak.com/iipa-reports-bittorrent-sites-and-cyberlockers-to-us-120214/ 14 February 2012 Sites that charge a nominal amount for music, such as the numerous AllofMP3-type clones, are described as an “important source of piracy” which have grown to more than 30 in number since that site’s demise. File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Russia takes in 2012 As with China, the requests are numerous but focus on the takedown of unlicensed music streaming services and social networks (i.e vKontakte), MP3 download sites, BitTorrent trackers, and action against site operators even if their servers are outside Russian jurisdiction. IIPA also calls for changes in the law to force greater cooperation from ISPs against infringement. Ukraine Unsurprisingly, Demonoid.me is the focus of the IIPA’s anti-BitTorrent sentiments in Ukraine with claims that the site offers 75,000 movies and 47,000 TV shows for free. Cyberlocker EX.ua, which was raided in January but is now back online, leads the IIPA’s file-hosting complaints. File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Ukraine takes in 2012 IIPA wants Demonoid and pay-MP3 sites such as MP3Fiesta taken down by the police. Under current Ukraine law, ISPs are not responsible for the actions of their users, a situation that causes rightsholders problems say the group. From the Watch List, the file-sharing focus falls on Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Italy The IIPA reports progress in Italy in recent years, citing the court-ordered ISP blockades of The Pirate Bay and the recently and voluntarily shuttered BTjunkie. Several other file-sharing sites have also been closed but IIPA says that further takedowns are being hindered by authorities not taking infringement seriously enough. The Peppermint Jam case, which resulted in Italy’s Data Protection Authority ruling that monitoring P2P users and collecting their IP addresses is illegal, also causes problems for rightsholders. File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Italy takes in 2012 Take additional criminal actions against P2P services that meet the criteria for injunctions and liability established in the Pirate Bay decision and order ISPs to block access to those services. Eliminate legal obstacles for rights holders to gather IP address evidence against file-sharers. Spain According to the IIPA, 55% of Spain’s online music piracy takes place via P2P networks such as BitTorrent, eMule and Ares, 34% via hosted websites and 11% via streaming services. 3 From torrentfreak.com/iipa-reports-bittorrent-sites-and-cyberlockers-to-us-120214/ 14 February 2012 The ESA claim that there are around 30 major Spanish websites offering links to illicit copies of video games and bemoans the lack of support from local ISPs in tackling the problem. Nevertheless, since P2P linking sites have been ruled legal in Spain many times before, up to now there has been very little they can do. File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Spain takes in 2012 IIPA says that P2P really took off in 2007. It’s probably not a coincidence that in 2006 a circular from the Attorney General proclaimed the decriminalization of P2P downloads. No surprise then that IIPA wants this announcement “corrected”. The group also wants the ability for rightsholders to bring civil and criminal actions against infringers by allowing them to obtain identifying information, and the law modified so that so that rights holder-submitted notices of infringement are capable of imparting ISPs with effective knowledge that infringement is occurring through its service without a court order. Switzerland The IIPA criticism of this land-locked country begins with a long-time enemy, the Razorback2 eD2K (eDonkey) indexing system which was subjected to huge raids in 2006 but later recovered. Swiss-based file-hosting giant RapidShare gets a brief mention as host of infringing content, but avoids the aggressive criticism of the past. The main problem for the IIPA appears to concern current law. “Since Switzerland’s copyright law contains a private copy exception with no expressly stated legal source requirement, downloading and streaming from servers operated by pirates outside Swizterland are being portrayed as legal in Switzerland by the press and anti-copyright activists, as long as there is no uploading,” the IIPA states in its report. The IIPA also bemoans the fact that Swiss law allows DRM circumvention which taken together with the private copying exception “would allow individuals to circumvent access or copy control measures in order to copy from illegal sources and share with friends.” File-sharing related actions IIPA recommends Switzerland takes in 2012 The 2010 ‘Logistep ruling‘ meant that collecting IP addresses in Switzerland with the aim of later filing a lawsuit was confirmed to be illegal and that IP addresses are personal data. IIPA would like the Data Protection Act changed to allow pursuit of infringers. From the Special Mention List, the file-sharing focus falls on Hong Kong, former home of the now-defunct MegaUpload. Hong Kong Surprisingly, Megaupload isn’t mentioned at all in the IIPA submission, not even as a copyright enforcement “success story”. The same cannot be said about Filesonic, one of the world’s leading cyberlocker services. 4 From torrentfreak.com/iipa-reports-bittorrent-sites-and-cyberlockers-to-us-120214/ 14 February 2012 Filesonic is among the top 10 file-sharing sites on the Internet, with a quarter billion page views a month. It disabled all 3rd party sharing in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown and actively blocks Hong Kong IP address.
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