[pp.int.general] urgent: data retention and downloading

[Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)]

The best data for a response, I believe, would come from IFPI Sweden's 
response to the Swedish Justice Department about the Swedish 
implementation proposal on the Data Retention Directive.

Highlights:

...an implementation of this directive constitutes an important 
foundation and prerequisite for IFPI's further work in taking action 
against those who infringe on our rightsholders' rights on the Internet...

...IFPI considers it important that the implementation... is done in 
such a way that copyright holders are given access to... traffic data...

...If technical innovation would make it possible to circumvent data 
retention or make it impossible, this would potentially cause great harm 
to copyright holders. ...

...It shall be possible for law enforcement and for rightsholders to act 
judicially against a party that infringes on rights, even when this 
happens on the Internet... (/remember now, the context is a data 
retention directive comment/)

...To fight illegal activity on the Internet, through criminal and civil 
sanctions, it is therefore a necessity that some traffic data be 
retained. In the case of a too restrictive regulation of data retention, 
there is a real risk of a situation where where numerous illegal acts 
cannot be mitigated.

See http://www.frendo.se/ifpi080320.html. Google can translate the rest 
of the text. My translations are from my printout of the PDF (with lots 
of red markings on it).

Rick


Reinier Bakels wrote:
> NL parliament will vote next week about the Dutch law implementing the 
> Data Retention Directive. Government proposes 24 months, the 
> supporters of 6 and 24 months are roughly in balance. Many 
> commentaries in newspapers.
>  
> None refers to a link with copyright enforcement. I know Erik 
> Josefsson noticed a long time ago that there is probably a link 
> between IPRED2 (thats makes copyright infringement "severe crimes") 
> and Data Retention, that is about collecting data for the prosecution 
> of "severe crimes" only.
>  
> Could we claim convincingly that "Data Retention" only pays lip 
> service to terrorism and (other) criminality, but actually is just 
> another of the many measures covertly proposed by desparate record 
> companies to turn the Internet into a police state for the purpose of 
> winning a war against file sharers - that is already almost lost?
>  
> This is urgent - if true, I will send a reaction to the newspapers.
>  
> reinier
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