Anti-Piracy Groups Mull “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Tackle Pirate Sites
Anti-piracy groups and rightsholders in Europe are reportedly interested in a so-called "Know Your Customer" proposal to tackle pirate sites. In the finance world, companies are required to know exactly who their clients are to prevent money laundering but what if this stretched to domain, hosting and cloud storage companies too?
Shadow ManMost adults seeking to do any kind of business with banks, financial entities or even gambling companies will have experienced efforts to positively identify who they are.
So-called ‘Know Your Customer’ regulations require that companies, mostly in the financial sector, carry out checks to determine that the individuals they are dealing with are actually who they say they. Such verification is usually carried out when an account is opened but can be revisited thereafter, with the provision of ID cards, passports, driving licenses, and even face verification becoming a condition for business.
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groups-mull-know-your-customer-proposal-to-tackle-pirate-sites-200719/
#europe #piracy
Anti-piracy groups and rightsholders in Europe are reportedly interested in a so-called "Know Your Customer" proposal to tackle pirate sites. In the finance world, companies are required to know exactly who their clients are to prevent money laundering but what if this stretched to domain, hosting and cloud storage companies too?
Shadow ManMost adults seeking to do any kind of business with banks, financial entities or even gambling companies will have experienced efforts to positively identify who they are.
So-called ‘Know Your Customer’ regulations require that companies, mostly in the financial sector, carry out checks to determine that the individuals they are dealing with are actually who they say they. Such verification is usually carried out when an account is opened but can be revisited thereafter, with the provision of ID cards, passports, driving licenses, and even face verification becoming a condition for business.
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groups-mull-know-your-customer-proposal-to-tackle-pirate-sites-200719/
#europe #piracy
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Anti-Piracy Groups Mull "Know Your Customer" Proposal to Tackle Pirate Sites * TorrentFreak
If domain, hosting and cloud storage customers were required to comply with 'Know Your Customer' regulations, could that hinder pirate sites?
A DMCA-style system could be coming to Europe
No one likes it, yet the EU appears to be adopting a similar measure.
There are some worrying signs that something akin to the loathed US Digital Millennium Copyright Act might be coming to Europe. At least, that is, to the 27-member-states of the European Union (EU).
We can glean this from a press release by the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the EU, that said that, “when a film is unlawfully uploaded onto an online platform, such as YouTube, the rightsholder may, under the directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, require the operator to provide only the postal address of the user concerned, but not his or her email, IP address or telephone number.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/a-dmca-style-system-could-be-coming-to-europe/
#eu #europe #dmca #piracy #privacy
No one likes it, yet the EU appears to be adopting a similar measure.
There are some worrying signs that something akin to the loathed US Digital Millennium Copyright Act might be coming to Europe. At least, that is, to the 27-member-states of the European Union (EU).
We can glean this from a press release by the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the EU, that said that, “when a film is unlawfully uploaded onto an online platform, such as YouTube, the rightsholder may, under the directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, require the operator to provide only the postal address of the user concerned, but not his or her email, IP address or telephone number.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/a-dmca-style-system-could-be-coming-to-europe/
#eu #europe #dmca #piracy #privacy