[kictanet] Music Copyright Owners sue ISPs for allowing Kenyans to download content illegally

John Gitau jgitau at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 14:58:47 EAT 2015


Oh wow now i am curious.

This can only be good for the lawyers. And maybe some awareness creation tv
time etc.

I don't know a single isp  (okay there is one) that won't have to re work
their infrastructure if instructed to block sites such as the ones listed
and someone finds a way to enforce a ruling against such isp's.

Doing so requires some unrecoverable capex.

Trying to police sites without changing the very nature /design of the
Internet is in my opinion a waste of time and money. (Granted some entities
will make money maube even create jobs but I digress).

As usual with technology anything is possible. I'm not sure we have laws to
sort this sort of thing out. But hey who said we can't try...
.funn fun times ahead

JG
On 29 Jan 2015 13:47, "Bernard Kioko via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Reading from the article it says there is a list.
> On Jan 29, 2015 1:23 PM, "Dennis Kioko" <dmbuvi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does Kenya have necessary laws, and do the copyright holders have a list
>> of infringing sites?
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:04 Bernard Kioko <bkioko at bernsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/11/uk-high-court-forces-big-isps-block-56-new-internet-piracy-websites.html
>>> On Jan 29, 2015 12:51 PM, "Dennis Kioko via kictanet" <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting case, though I wonder how ISPs allow people to allow
>>>> content illegally. Any one with some insight?
>>>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/Music-copyright-owners-illegal-downloads/-/539550/2605386/-/na4mbsz/-/index.html
>>>>
>>>>
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