Seeks to target P2P services considered to be “predominantly infringing” and sites like The Pirate Bay that “refuse to cooperate with (copy)right holders.”

Copyright holders and lobbying organizations seem to be ceaseless these days in their efforts to get ISPs on board in their quest for total global content domination.
They have been particularly busy in the UK and France with calls for outright banishment from the internet of repeated copyright infringing individuals.
Now comes word that the IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, is outlining a specific strategy to be undertaken by ISPs and it isn’t pretty.
It claims that ISPs are not “sufficiently forthcoming in Europe,” and that they could do more to address piracy on their networks, with music in particular. Of odd concern is that it wants ISPs to help it handle “…websites located in…rogue jurisdictions where no effective enforcement mechanisms are available.” In other words, the IFPI wants ISPs to begin blocking sites like The Pirate Bay.
In short, the IFPI lays out what it calls “…three technical options available to ISPs to control infringing traffic.” [more..]