Legalising Ransomware in the Sphere of Copyright Infringements

There came a proposal from U.K. copyright enforcement group Rightscorp Ltd. that would see browser access rejected to consumers accused of illegally installing or viewing copyrighted materials until such time they paid a fine to regain access.

The Rightscorp proposal known as “Scaleable copyright” will see current warnings and settlement demands go away from emails and instead be provided by means of web browsers of individuals accused with the assistance of an internet service provider.

Single notices can be read and bypassed similar to the way a software license agreement works. As soon as the Internet account is provided with a certain number of notices over a particular time frame, the computer display note should not be bypassed until the settlement payoff obtained.

Its implementation is going to need the contract with the ISP. ISPs have the tech solutions to show these notices to customers.

There exists support for “three-strikes” copyright warning system and variations on it in numerous jurisdictions around the world, but the trouble with those procedures is that the payment demands are made without a court order, which implies that sometimes loyal and innocent people can be accused of misconduct.

It’s a slippery slope of repression where a private business will be able to hold a user PC to ransom, like malware creators do, on an unproven accusation relying primarily on the stipulation of an IP address. With Government’s world-wide leading their way in encouraging Orwellian Internet monitoring and constraints, it’s barely unexpected that the private sector would want} in too.