IFPI Want ISP’s to filter out P2P sites without court order

International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) (the record companies’ consortium) wants all ISP’s to sign up to a new “code of conduct” that it has helpfully drafted with the help of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

Under the new code, ISPs would put in place filtering technology to block services and/or sites that “are substantially dedicated to illegal file sharing or download services”. They would retain data beyond what law enforcement agencies require, with the aim of helping track down copyright infringement. They’d hand that data, plus your identity, over to the IFPI or MPA if there was even a complaint – not a court order – against you, and will have to power to terminate your subscription to the ISP if they see fit.

Also according to the draft, the duo want ISPs and network operators to “enforce terms of service that prohibit a subscriber from operating a server, or from consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities.”

A summary of the draft can be found at the Electronic Digital Rights site’s latest EDRIgram.