“Three Strikes” Law Not Enough, South Korean P2P Sites Forced to Filter

Korean Film Producers Association has started a new crackdown campaign against p2p file sharing using a digital filtering system that it wants all p2p sites to implement or else face “severe measures”.

Now doubt about it, after gaining a bad rep for being the first country to enforce the “three strikes” model for repeat copyright infringers, South Korea is determined to maintain it as a press release reveals:

“From now on, the failure to install the software will be taken as an offense against consumers and copyright holders. We will seek stern legal measures.”

A network of 78 Korean P2P sites, accounting for about 90% of the local online movie downloading sources, have already complied with the request to install the software which identifies copyrighted works on the Web using an audio encoding system.

Apparently, the distribution of the software hasn’t been exactly constant and even which led to a sort of business discrimination (those sites which are already using the filtering system have lost revenue over those which are not). Hence the KFPA’s rather drastic attitude.

(via HollywoodReporter)