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IMI-Indian Music
Industry has set up its internet Anti-piracy team in the year
2000, headed by Mr. Prem Kumar (premkumar@indianmi.org) which
has been closely working with IFPI to counter piracy. In the
last three years, the IMI managed to closed Five Hundred sites.
Most sites are based on servers in the USA.
IMI is contemplating action against
these servers and has sent has notices to them in Nov 2004,
which resulted in the immediate closure of 90% of those sites.
With the advancement of technology, it is easier to communicate
and reach people accross the world , However it is this very
technology is additing and abeting piracy through websites
& P2P tranfers.
While currently the music industry is being seriously affected
by piracy as cable penetration increases and bandwith increases
piracy rates of movies will also increase. IFPI has been making
serious afforts to grapple with this format of piracy and
has been successfulin addressing P2P sites. IMI too has been
focusing on Websites involved in streaming and douwnloading
Indian music. Some of the action initiated by IFPI are as
follows :
IFPI has initiating action against consumers involved in P2P
tranfers which have resulted in the closure of KAZAA
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"This is a landmark decision,
the most important judgement involving the music industry
in 20 years. It quite simply destroys the argument that peer-to-peer
services bear no responsibility for illegal activities that
take place on their networks. The US Supreme Court has ruled,
clearly and unequivocally, that technology distributors cannot
build a business by promoting copyright infringement. And,
in doing so, the Court has given a boost to the development
of the legitimate on-line market and the millions of creators
and investors, artists and producers working within it, not
only in the US but worldwide."
Source: IFPI
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The operators of the law-breaking
music distributor Kazaa have until midnight tonight (5th December
Australian EST) to begin implementing the first court-ordered
filters to their music piracy system.
The Federal Court of Australia has, as an interim step, ordered
Sharman Networks, one of Kazaa's operators, to modify its
software to include a 3,000 word copyright filter which will
be updated every two weeks.
The filter is a first, stop-gap move towards enforcing a landmark
copyright ruling in September, which found Sharman Networks
liable for authorising massive copyright infringement on the
Kazaa system.
Implementing the key word filter is a condition of a stay
on the copyright judgment which otherwise provides for the
shutdown of Kazaa.
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John Kennedy, Chairman and CEO of IFPI, said: "Three
months ago the Court found Kazaa guilty of massive copyright
infringement. Now the time has come for action. The music
industry is watching closely to see that the court's order
for the introduction of this filter is respected and implemented."
Source : IFPI
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