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The authority shall decide on the copyright without limestone hand on repression. With the aim of reshaping the digital content market in Italy. The Commissioner Maurizio Dècina indicates the pillars on which this new regulation ALESSANDRO LONGO

Mauritius Dècina
Get ready for a new season for digital content online, because what was decided today by AGCOM (Communications Authority) is an all-round reform of copyright. The aim is to re-establish the digital content market in Italy, with the relaunch of the legal and education of users. Even with the repression of piracy, of course, as expected and feared by many supporters of freedom of the network. But the NRA has tried to keep a low profile on the aspects “crime” of the resolution. Yes will have new powers to remove pirated content from the Internet and – as a last resort – sites to become inaccessible, but chose to use this weapo n in moderation. Recall that the previous Board NRA (whose vertices are changed in July 2012) had tried to make a decision on copyright, much criticized for its aspects to Internet censors.

“I was opposed to the old copyright legislation because it threatened to violate some fundamental principles of freedom on the internet.’s new is to protect it at the same time support the digital content market, “says Maurizio Dècina Commissioner NRA and historian Professor of Networks and Communications at the Polytechnic of Milan.

She refers to the anti-piracy resolution that the previous Board of the NRA tenetato to do, on behalf of the Roman decree of 2010, and then give it up in the wake of allegations of censorship by experts and politicians bipartisan . Your acting resume that mandate, why should it be better?
“Why is founded on three pillars. First, transparency: all the activities that the NRA will, in this context will be visible on the web and debated in an Technical Committee with the participation of all stakeholders, including consumer groups and the holders of the copyright. Secondly, legal education to the use of the internet. Users who try to access a site containing copyrighted works can be addressed to a web page that explains how to get those files in a legal manner, even for free (see music on Spotify and YouTube.) This is an excellent idea that is inspired by the deterrent of the French Hadopi law, who have had great success. On 1.7 million people who have read the warning, only 159,000 have persisted in illegality, in three years. third pillar: the promotion of legal offers. “

Already, for example, the distribution windows should be updated at the time of the internet to reduce the time to wait for a movie online. But it is an issue on which others are to decide, not you …
“I know, and I do not mean only the windows, but also new forms of licenses for open and shared. But in Committee put all stakeholders precisely for this ambition to reform the system from the roots of digital content in Italy. Svecchiandolo. And we need the cooperation of everyone. “

However, there is also the repression of piracy on the resolution and it is the most delicate aspect. How to avoid the risks of civil liberty?
“Will it work well. The copyright holder informs us that there is a work site on a pirate. Then we carry out an investigation and if we see that there is violation copyright, we ask the owner (the “page owner”) to remove it. If this does not remedy, there are two alternatives. If the site is hosted by a hosting provider Italian, we can ask him to remove the work. If is foreign, we must ask the Italian internet provider to disable the access of its members to the site. There are two big changes from the previous resolution. First, there will impose to block the IP address of the foreign site, which equates to prevent a communication and may be treated to censorship. providers may act by altering the systems DNS (Domain Name Server). Moreover, they will not be set for the selective removal t hat requires the use, invasive of privacy, device DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) ” .

But this means that users just need to change the DNS in the options of your operating system to still have access to that site.
“Yes, but research shows that 70 percent of users do not know or do not want to do. So the measure is effective and does not threaten the freedom of the internet. The second difference with the previous decision is that we will focus on that hundred sites

of massive piracy that are responsible for the vast majority of copyright violations and economic damage to the content provider. For these sites, in fact, our procedure of repression will be swift, it will last only 10 days, while for all the high signals will get 45 days. To verify the violations we will also take advantage of technological tools, using the registered trademarks of digital audio-visual works and editorials (SIAE, Fieg, etc.). “.

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