[x-pubpol] Joe Biden Pushed For "Six Strikes" Anti-Piracy Plan, IFPI Says

[Joly MacFie]

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IFPI wants governments worldwide to facilitate plans to tackle online
piracy, whether voluntary or not. The music group’s CEO Frances Moore
mentions the U.S. six-strikes program as a prime example. On paper the
agreement between copyright holders and ISPs was voluntary, but Moore
reveals that Vice President Joe Biden was one of the driving forces behind
it.

For the last decade entertainment companies around the world have tried to
tackle online piracy in various ways.

In recent years they have focused more on getting Internet providers to
take responsibility, and behind the scenes copyright groups have lobbied
governments to kick them into action.

This has resulted in mandatory “strikes” legislation in France, New Zealand
and South Korea, but copyright groups want more.

In Australia, for example, there have long been talks to set up a voluntary
strikes program but according to IFPI CEO Frances Moore some government
pressure is needed to get the ball rolling.
“There comes a point where the government has got to intervene. How long
have those talks been going on in one form or another? When government
intervenes, you get action,” Moore says in an interview with Music Network.

Interestingly, the music group boss mentioned the U.S. Copyright Alert
System as a prime example where government intervention paid off. While
it’s not a secret that the U.S. Government took part in the negotiations,
the involvement of Vice President Joe Biden was never made concrete until
now.

“If you look at the U.S., you could say the new U.S. Copyright Alert System
was voluntary. But one shouldn’t forget that behind it was (U.S. Vice
President) Joe Biden. And Victoria Espinel, the U.S. ‘Copyright Tsar’. They
were always pushing the parties to come to some type of agreement,” Moore
says.

“People need to know if they don’t (reach an agreement) there will be some
type of intervention,” she adds.

So judging from Moore’s comments the Vice President was personally involved
in the formation of the voluntary deal. Perhaps this is also one of the
reasons why the Government refuses to comply with some Freedom of
Information requests regarding the copyright alert system?

It’s of course no secret that Vice President Biden is a strong anti-piracy
advocate. “Piracy is theft, clean and simple,” Biden said when he announced
the Joint Strategic Plan to combat intellectual property theft in 2010.

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