Europe parliament rejects French 3 strikes law
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music have received yet another serious blow against their plans to gain complete control of music distribution on the internet.
“France is definitely alone in the world with its kafkaesque administrative machinery, an expensive mechanism for arbitrary punishment,” says La Quadrature du Net.
Not quite alone.
New Zealand, too, is meeting fierce resistance in its attempts to impose a virtually identical law on its citizens.
And in the US, the Big 4 are trying, and failing, to use their RIAA and the corporate media to bamboozle the nation into believing major American ISPs are firmly behind the plan, which claims providers are willing to become copyright enforcers.
The European Parliament has endorsed the Lambrinidis report, effectively condemning the so-called HADOPI three-strikes-and-you’re-gone policy promoted by French president Nicolas Sarkozy on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music.
Sarkozy, a close friend of ex-US president George W. Bush, and Denis Olivennes, who runs France’s largest consumer electronics and media retail operation, want the Draconian legislation applied to alleged online pirates.
But the European Parliament has turned its back on every proposed amendment, rejecting the corporate music inspired “graduated response” for the third time, says La Quadrature du Net.
A Greek politician and member of the European Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, part of the Party of European Socialists, Eurodeputy Stavros Lambrinidis’ (right) report centres on the protection of online liberties, confirmed by the European parliament by an overwhelming vote of 481 to 2522, says the story, going on »»»
It stands in clear opposition to the French HADOPI law in “holding that illiteracy with computers will be the illiteracy of the 21st century; holding that guaranteeing Internet access to all citizens is the same as guaranteeing all citizens access to education and holding that such access must not be refused in punishment by governments or private organizations; holding that this access should not be used abusively for illegal activities; holding that attention must be paid to emerging questions such as network neutrality, interoperability, the global accessibility of all Internet nodes, and the use of open formats and standards.”
The approval of the Lambrinidis report and the rejection of the French amendments is the third consecutive time that the European Parliament has rejected the French “graduated response”, since the approval of the Bono amendment to the report on cultural industries3 and the well-known Bono/Cohn-Bendit/Roithova Amendment 1384.
Every amendment supported by the French government, “notably those proposed by Eurodeputies Jacques Toubon and Jean-Marie Cavada,”" has been rejected, says La Quadrature du Net.
“Europe has once again sent a powerful political signal in France’s direction,” says Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, adding:
The approval of the Lambrinidis report is a slap in the face for the French minister of culture Christine Albanel, facing a serious and near-unanimous opposition.
“This vote, moreover, is a demonstration that French citizens can turn to Europe when their rights are treated with contempt in France.” says La Quadrature du Net co-founder Jérémie Zimmermann.
Definitely stay tuned.
(Cheers, Phillipe)
La Quadrature du Net, The European Parliament rejects “graduated response”… for the third time, March 26, 2009
meeting fierce resistance – New Zealand: safe from Big Music. Or is it?, March 25, 2009
bamboozle the nation - Comcast, AT&T say No! to RIAA 3-strikes plan, March 26, 2009|
HADOPI – French `3 strikes` anti-P2P law mired, May 10, 2008
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March 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Sarko facho!
March 27th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
see ya cant act like napolean in france and get away with it