[governance] WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

Thank you for this Pranesh.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org>wrote:

> Summary of Russia's verbal intervention:
>
> According to some of the studies included in doc WIPO/ACE/7/5,
> infringing content is responsible for more than 1/4 of online traffic.
> While some of Dr. Cliff's (Chatham House) criticism of those numbers are
> legitimate, it remains an important problem, especially "torrent
> trackers". Law enforcement agencies in Russia identify between 6000 -
> 7000 illegal file sharing sites each year and it has become a game of
> whack-a-mole as new services sprout up on a daily basis. This situation
> is difficult both for rightsholders and consumers because there are too
> many of those services to be able to track them and they shift their
> servers constantly. There are roughly 30,000 trackers and only a few of
> them have been closed because there are international private law and
> other judicial problems, and so far, no effective mechanism to solve
> problem has been identified and it remains difficult to build
> cooperation between states on those issues. This is why the Russian
> delegation proposes to undertake a series of studies to determine the
> extent of the problem, look at existing models to fight illegal file
> sharing, the different practices among member States to prosecute
> "torrent trackers". To get achieve those objectives, we need to to
> compare statistics of online crime in different jurisdictions, the
> number of prosecutions on those issues in different member-states etc.
> One of the outcomes of this study should give us an idea of 'how
> Governments can regulate the relationships between stakeholders
> disseminating information over the Internet.'
>
>
> --
> Pranesh Prakash
> Programme Manager
> Centre for Internet and Society
> W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
>
>


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