PayPal joins London police bid to financially starve "illegal" websites

[letmein]

PayPal has joined a music copyright association and the City of London police department's bid to financially starve websites deemed "illegal." When presented with sufficient evidence of unlicensed downloading from a site, the United Kingdom's PayPal branch "will require the retailer to submit proof of licensing for the music offered by the retailer," said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's latest press release.

The company will then "discontinue services to retailers in cases where licensing appears to be inadequate." The announcement comes with the requisite gung-ho statement from Carl Scheible, PayPal UK's managing director.

This shows that PayPal is "very serious about fighting music piracy," Scheible explains. "We've always banned PayPal's use for the sale of content that infringes copyright, and the new system will make life even harder for illegal operators. Our partnership with the music industry helps rights holders make money from their own content while stopping the pirates in their tracks."

MasterCard and Visa are already on board this initiative, originally unveiled in March. The process works like this: IFPI submits allegedly infringing websites to the City of London police department's Economic Crime Directorate. Once the division has "verified the evidence," it passes the information on to MasterCard, Visa, and now PayPal.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/paypal-joins-london-police-bid-to-financially-starve-illegal-websites.ars


Do you agree with this? Who's side are you on?

[arista]

"This shows that PayPal is "very serious about fighting music piracy,"


Yes a Good move
Stay legal is the future.

[joeysteele]

Doesn't bother me really but I am not really on any side of this one.

I would be unlikely to agree much with paypal so if pushed,I'd be against this action.

[arista]

Doesn't bother me really but I am not really on any side of this one.

I would be unlikely to agree much with paypal so if pushed,I'd be against this action.


No Piracy is Illegal.

[joeysteele]

No Piracy is Illegal.

Well yes,you are right and you have the strongest point there arista,I cannot really justifiably argue with that except I don't necessarily think that some things should be considered illegal.

[arista]

Well yes,you are right and you have the strongest point there arista,I cannot really justifiably argue with that except I don't necessarily think that some things should be considered illegal.


No thats no answer
you cross a line
Illegal Download



GUILTY

[joeysteele]

No thats no answer
you cross a line
Illegal Download



GUILTY

:joker: I agree with you, you are right, it is currently illegal,you are correct.

[arista]

:joker: I agree with you, you are right, it is currently illegal,you are correct.


I will Visit You
in Jail.

[joeysteele]

I will Visit You
in Jail.

:joker:I never download anything I don't pay for,but I also think we the buying public do get ripped off (sadly legally),in all likelihood by the Companies more than vice versa.

[arista]

:joker:I never download anything I don't pay for,but I also think we the buying public do get ripped off (sadly legally),in all likelihood by the Companies more than vice versa.



No we do not
we have the cheapest prices in the World
on Amazon UK and Play com
for example.

[letmein]

Overall "piracy" shouldn't be illegal. It's the same as sharing an album or a movie with a friend. Bootleg movies, sure, they're illegal, and would be illegal in physical form wherever they were available. People who put stuff up for people to download, aren't putting them up to make money. That's what has always been illegal. This is just the industry trying to control the masses.

[billy123]

I could argue copyright law all day the fact is it is wrong greedy and pathetic.
Music has existed for the sole reason of sharing with other people for pleasure for tens of thousands of years and that will always be the case.
The gallo report which was proposals to further tighten laws on copyright protection was rammed through a european union session and into law with the extra backing of some of the signatures of huge music producers which on further inspection it turns out two of the people that had supposedly signed it were dead and others that claimed to not even know of its existence never mind signed it 0-o who is the criminal again??
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[arista]

UK High Court forces BT to block file-sharing website

Win for Hollywood studios (including Disney)
as UK high court rules BT must block access to Newzbin2



http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/28/high-court-bt-filesharing-website-newzbin2


BT are pleased they now know its Official UK Law
to start this year.

[arista]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Jul/Week4/16039534.jpg


Yes Pirates Die

[billy123]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Jul/Week4/16039534.jpg


Yes Pirates Die
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