From the Star
KUALA LUMPUR: The free-and-easy days of illegal downloading of music and movies may soon be over. A proposed new law will enable Internet Service Providers (ISP) to suspend or terminate the Internet accounts of P2P (peer-to-peer) users.
This new law called the ISP Liability act, will be tabled in Parliament next month, according to Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM) chairman Norman Halim.
RIM has been lobbying the Government for an ISP Liability act for the past 5 years as illegal online downloads have been cannibalising the legitimate sales of music, worldwide.
“The act makes the ISPs responsible for curbing online piracy. The ISPs will be fined if they don’t take action against illegal downloaders. The ISPs have the technology to track P2P users,” said Norman.
However, he said that the fine amount had yet to be determined.
ISPs will send two warning letters to illegal downloaders. Should the downloaders still persist, the Internet access will be suspended or even terminated.
“Other countries that have such an act have seen their respective music industries recover. One good example would be South Korea,” he said.
November 26th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
All the more to use BolehVPN to encrypt internet traffic.
November 26th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
looks like bolehroute gonna be congested if this bill approved by teh gomen
November 26th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Rubes, I do think it’s time for you to list on ACE.
November 26th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Ok, P2P disabled . Then how do we use other P2P programs? Garena? Play MW2? What the hell?!
November 26th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
This is the end of freedom on the internet. This bill coming to Malaysian Parliment is only part one of something much bigger. To understand it everyone should check Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement.
This trade agreement is world wide and it is coming to Malaysia. Who has joined? Our neighbour Singapore, that good example from Norman Halim and many more.
This new bill will give the RIM and the goverment the power they dream for like disconnecting users and closing or banning websites without recourse. They can do these by just filing a complaint on the ip address of the users. (http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-) With screamyx fantastic track records of accuracy and care it is safe to say everyone is f**k.
That is just for starters, remember this news http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/12/6/focus/5200367&sec=focus Guess what is coming Quote from wikipedia about ACTA “Potential border searches are covered by the “Border Measures” proposal of ACTA.” “Newspapers reported that the draft agreement would empower security officials at airports and other international borders to conduct random ex officio searches of laptops, MP3 players, and cellular phones for illegally downloaded or “ripped” music and movies. Travellers with infringing content would be subject to a fine and may have their devices confiscated or destroyed.”
And there is more to come……….
November 26th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Ok, who are the people funding the RIM?
There has to be money involved in this.
November 26th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
what a crap…..rim is out of option to save the music industry cause not so many people buy local music. why? answer. low quality music and more crap. even the movie industry in the state of critical cause cineplex empty when come to local movie but full when cineplex play oversea movie like harry potter. who rim should blame? tell rim to change they mindset before make any stupid decision and cause more hatred toward local content.
November 26th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Actually this law is not just to combat piracy. To combat piracy Malaysia already has copyright law.
The title of this law says it “ISP Liability Act” . It put responsibility to the ISP on what the users does and the content of the internet. It makes the ISP liable. This act basically strips the protection of “common carrier” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
With that, since the ISP’s are liable or responsible it can choose to ignore the MCMC’s guidelines such as no censoreship because it is no longer a common carrier and it must protect itself. With that you can use your creativity on what RIM and the government can do.
This is another way what Rais Yatim wanted to do or everyone forgot what he wanted to do. This act is like one stone killing lots of birds.
Besides that this act also place the burden of copyright enforcement on the ISPs not that they are busy enough PROVIDING A PROPER SERVICE!!!!!!!
November 27th, 2010 at 12:10 am
This law is just too broad and grants too much power to a select group of people. If it just to combat piracy, there are avenues already. If to combat piracy it is the job of RIM to do it not the job of ISPs. This is just passing the buck. The ISP are busy enough just to keep the internet up.
This new act is brought on with the argument of combating piracy. Of course no sane person could argue against it . But if everyone look around the world this new act is similar or not the same as ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). This is just the beginning or the tip of an ice berg.
This is happening all around the world. Please google “ACTA”.
November 27th, 2010 at 12:59 am
Some articles about ACTA
http://boingboing.net/2010/09/21/mpaa-actas-censoring.html
http://battleangel.org/2008/05/24/wikileaks-acta-will-kill-the-net/
http://boingboing.net/2010/09/06/latest-leaked-draft.html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100222/0215038248.shtml
November 27th, 2010 at 10:11 am
All let’s ddos RIM’s website like how the others did for MPAA and RIAA, all together one shot, atleast 9000 users would do the trick.
November 27th, 2010 at 10:40 am
this is the stupidest act ever. problem is still there. original materials are freakin expensive.
imho, ppl are still gonna buy pirated dvd/vcd because its cheap and easy to get.
November 28th, 2010 at 1:14 am
was it still safe for me to download torrent using public tracker? or should i change to bolehroute?
November 29th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
I don’t know if my complaints did any good but my 1Mb Streamyx line is back! I’m blazing. Maybe those muppets fixed their routing after my incessant pestering after all.
Reports anyone else?
December 1st, 2010 at 6:32 pm
First solve corruption problem before addressing other crap.
Cut subsidy like hell.
all prices go up , now want us to buy legally butchered expensive movies.
Go ahead and mess with Malaysian’s past time and see the results in the election.