Jailing File Sharers – Not The Solution (WIPO)

It’s actually pretty strange, Hollywood and the RIAA had a huge say in drafting how the UN’s WIPO would operate and the policies they would follow, but now even the WIPO agree that jailing file sharers is not the solution. Only question is, with the MAFIAA banking on ACTA, do they have to even take a second to listen to the WIPO? The MAFIAA does not think so.

Francis Gurry, director-general of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), says the solution to illegal P2P piracy isn’t “putting teenagers in jail.”

Francis Gurry, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a UN agency created in 1967 “to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world,” gave a speech at the opening of India’s 5th International Forum on Creativity and Inventions in which he stressed that jailing convicted illegal file-sharers was not the solution to piracy.

“I don’t believe we are going to win this, (to) find the solution by putting teenagers in jail,” said Gurry. “I think that is not going to win public sympathy.”

“Part of the battle here is to sensitize the public to the fact that there is a real issue involved. It is not simply a victimless crime,” he added.

He noted that the real problem is the…

Rest of the article and commentary: ZeroPaid

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