Bazza Sookman and the 3 Strikes Plan
p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- Corporate entertainment cartel mouthperson Bazza Sookman (right) is at it again.
He and Dan Glover (?) reckon the Hollywood and Big Music If You Don’t Buy Our Stuff And Do What We Tell We’ll Get You Thrown Off The Net bidniz plan (aka ‘graduated response’ and ‘Three Strikes’) is just right.
“Canada has earned a dubious distinction as a world hub for illegitimate file-sharing websites and a leader in Internet piracy,” p2pnet quoted Barrie McKenna as saying in the Golbe & Nail late last year.
Actually, it hasn’t ‘earned’ anything of the sort, we pointed out, noting:
“The allegation follows relentless junque-posts in the mainstream media planted there by hard-core corporate music lobbyists such as Barry Sookman, quoted in McKenna’s piece as though he (Sookman or McKenna, take your choice) is a credible and reliable source of information.”
Sookman has certainly earned his bones with the Hollywood and Big Music Mafia, proof of which comes with the fact his latest offerings are being quoted by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s IFPI (International Federation of Phornographic Industry) .
“Graduated response, which has been implemented in jurisdictions such as France, Taiwan, and South Korea, and which is in the process of being enacted in the UK and New Zealand, is viewed by many policy makers as a fair and effective means of addressing the problem of online unauthorized file sharing,” he and Danny say in a The Lawyers Weekly article Bazaa re-publishes in his blog entitled Barry Sookman Da Da !.
[Actually, the 'Da Da !' isn't in there but you can almost hear it anyway ... ]
He once again trifles with the facts, as is his wont, with his categorical statement “is in the process of being enacted in the UK”.
It is by no means being enacted in Britain. Indeed, there’s an excellent chance it won’t see the light of day as the outgoing Labour government struggles to ram it through parliament.
Nor is it by any means certain the corporate Three Strikes plan, under which governments act as entertainment cartel copyright agents and local ISPs function as copyright cops against their own customs, will survive increasing public outrage anywhere else.
But that’s Bazza for you.
And Dan, of course.
“Graduated response systems such as the ones mentioned above are effective and proportionate,” they say.
Etcetera and so on …
“The Canadian government has stated on multiple occasions that it intends to adopt best practices in upgrading Canadian copyright laws,” they state, adding:
“Graduated response systems are now recognized as being critical instruments of copyright policy. Accordingly, we urge the government to critically examine these systems and to include a graduated response system in any new copyright reform bill that is introduced.”
Are you listening, Stephen?
He probably is.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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p2pnet – Canada attacked again as ‘pirate haven’, October 20, 2009
Golbe & Nail – The (legal) music fades out for Canadians, October 20, 2009
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Graduated response, which has been implemented in jurisdictions such as France, Taiwan, and South Korea, and which is in the process of being enacted in the UK and New Zealand, is viewed by many policy makers as a fair and effective means of addressing the problem of online unauthorized file sharing.
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