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

Thu Jan 29 17:11:58 EAT 2015

John,

You will be surprised what more is in stock and not revealed in that article.

Regards

From: John Gitau [mailto:jgitau at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 2:59 PM
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions; Bernard Kioko [Bernsoft Interactive Limited]
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Music Copyright Owners sue ISPs for allowing Kenyans to download content illegally

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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