Bob Pisano, the new chief of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), is now pressuring the British government to implement Internet traffic “throttling” rather than disconnecting users in line with its three-strike policy.
Pisano, the former Screen Actors’ Guild president, will take over the position of Dan “The Joker” Glickman as president and operations boss of MPAA.
His first order of business is to convince the UK government to implement alternative anti peer-to-peer actions that would not affect unwitting online users.
“The Brits are twisting and turning in its actions just to please the entertainment industry. The three-strike policy being recommended by Lord Madison is giving more trouble to the people concerned over the issue, especially those in France,” Pisano said.
“We don’t want an outright disconnection to users violating copyright laws. It would be much better if the UK government will impose traffic throttling instead,” he added.
According to Pisano, the film industry losses more than $500 million each year due to increasing piracy in the Internet, using file-sharing websites. He added that Internet traffic throttling would be enough to deter users from further use of P2P networks.
It will be recalled that Glickman failed to convince the UK government into implementing the scheme prompting major Hollywood studios take further actions. The film industry are also having a hard time to convince the music labels to join them in their calls as most of the record companies wanted the three-strike policy to be implemented.
Critics accused record labels of passing the burden of their losses to innocent consumers who will shoulder the cost of the implementation of the three-strike law. It was learned that an “Online Police” will handle all the monitoring and enforcing in connection with the scheme.
Countries like US, France, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, and South Korea were among those who have agreed with the new law.
Tremendous lobbying efforts have been exerted by the recording industry to have the three-strike policy put in place, bumping efforts by film makers to push their “throttling” scheme.