British intellectual property adviser laid the burden of catching pirated content on providers

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Mike Weatherly, Advisor to the British Prime Minister David Cameron on Intellectual Property Issues, presented a report on the fight against piracy in the United Kingdom. In particular, Weatherly believes that providers themselves, both the Internet and Internet services, must fight piracy.

One of the key themes of the 18-page report is the need to stimulate providers to “proactive” content filtering. According to the adviser, providers should independently monitor pirated content and prevent its further distribution.
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Weatherly urges to force providers to creatively address the issues of hindering piracy, and not just to block the resources that fighters for copyright will point out to them, but also to look for and block all similar files on the network.

“This means that the Internet and digital services providers themselves eliminate many copies of the same work that is placed on their services, and not just the copy to which the complaint was received,” the adviser explains. MPA (Association of Music Publishers) believes that this principle can be extended to such an extent as to ensure that all copies of the work are completely eliminated. ”

Weatherly acknowledges that it is difficult to require providers to carry out police activities, but at the same time claims that they have a “moral obligation” to do more of what they can do now. How technically providers should look for similar content on the Internet and block it, the adviser does not specify.

The counselor also believes that the issue of copyright protection takes precedence over the principle of non-interference in personal life and the lack of surveillance of citizens. “There are still questions about whether the public wants to be monitored for their actions (albeit automatically and completely confidential),” adds Weatherly, “and is the movement in the direction of a more secure and honest Internet that price that will have to be paid for the destruction of illegal activity on the Internet. I vote for.

Previously, this fighter for the rights of oppressed intellectual property owners insisted on the need for imprisonment for those involved in file sharing , called for teaching the basics of copyright in schools and demanded from search engines to improve the content filtering system to exclude illegal materials from search.

This document, of course, will not be directly translated into a legal framework, but will be carefully studied by the UK government and the European Commission in order to make final decisions.