Streaming Video Sites Should Be Blocked, Says Movie Producer

Another movie producer with another brilliant idea on how to thwart online piracy! At a conference organized by the German anti-piracy organization GVU, Max Wiedemann voiced his theory about eradicating piracy – having ISPs block access to streaming video sites that offer unlicensed full-length feature movies.

According to the German film producer sites like Kino.to should be banned. Over the last year Germany offered ground for experimenting similar methods of blocking access to websites and with book publishers’ pressure for popular hosting services like Rapidshare to be shut down, industries join forces in an ever-increasing censorship.

But, of course, ISPs have their own say in this. They are opposing these claims as most of them are opposing the ‘three strikes’ policy.

At the same aforementioned event, a representative of the German ISP association eco said that procedures to tackle the issue of illicit content are already considered and hinted at the usefulness of an authorization that would have police investigate crime over the Internet more efficiently.

(via P2P-Blog)