To curb the
menace of illegal downloading and the failure of various ISP providers to
comply with anti-piracy measures, the Singapore government has approved a
proposed copyright law which shall come into effect starting August 2014. The websites
that show support for piracy will go down, if content creators lodge complaints
with internet service providers. If the websites fail to remove the content
from these websites they can be blocked.
The law
targets websites like torrents and Pirates bay etc. which are notorious for
uploading content for which they have no rights upon them and regularly
infringe copyright of various artists.
Before this
law the owners could just request the ISP’s to remove the content, and could
sue the content provider, which meant long and expensive court battles, which
the content generator usually avoided.
Since the
gateway can easily be by-passed by experienced users using VPN’s and the illegal content providers
constantly changing their IP addresses it remains to be seen how useful these
changes can be for piracy in the future and how vigilant ISP’s can remain in
tracking the piracy menace.
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