3-strikes plan suffers new blow
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With the EU parliament scheduled to vote on a controversial EU telecom reform package, tomorrow, member states have agreed to the inclusion of a new paragraph, “prohibiting national authorities from excluding users from the internet without a court order,” says The Local.
This represents another telling blow to entertainment cartel efforts to muscle governments into passing laws which would compel ISPs to act as copyright cops who’d be forced to cut off internet connections for clients found ‘guilty’ of sharing corporate ‘product’ online.
Earlier in the year, it looked certain a number of countries would fall in line with Hollywood and Big 4 record label demands to set up a system under which the governments would act as industry copyright enforcers.
However, spirited, and largely online, resistance has forced most of the countries to think twice, although France’s Nicolas Sarkozy is still determined to ram the measure through
“The telecom package is primarily concerned with improving competition on the common European market,” says The Local, going on:
“But personal integrity issues have dominated the debate.”
Swedish MP Christoffer Fjellner (right), “said he felt vindicated by the new provisions surrounding the necessity of a court order to bar illegal file shares from accessing the internet,” says the story, quoting him as stating:
“The wording could have been a bit stronger, but as with all international negotiations it is imperative that a compromise is found.”
The compromise also means Sweden’s centre-right members of the European parliament, “will most likely be able to avoid voting against a proposal that is supported by the Swedish government,” says the story.
Sweden recently implemented IPRED, its version of the ‘three strikes and you’re gone’ law conceived by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney.
A state agency funded by local taxayers would send ‘illegal’ file-sharers an email warning, then a letter and, finally, suspend their Net accounts for up to a year.
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The Local – EU deal ‘a rap on the knuckles for Sarkozy’, May 4, 2009
think twice – UK backs out of corporate `3 strikes` law, April 29, 2009
still determined – France re-boots `3 strikes` bill, April 30, 2009
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May 6th, 2009 at 2:42 am
Good thing that they have thrown out the idiotic 3 strikes deal. Nicolas Sarkozy…. stop listening to your wife. She has a vested interest. SHE IS A MUSICIAN. Of course she wants what the labels tell her to want. A word of advice to you my dear french president: Read your countrys history, and focus on the part with the revolution.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to style himself as a Napoleon Bonaparte. And we all know what happened to that tyrannical dictator don’t we?
May 6th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Island and isolation comes to mind.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
“Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to style himself as a Napoleon Bonaparte. And we all know what happened to that tyrannical dictator donât we?”
Some French actually refer Sarkozy as Napoleon III, or Napoleon the small as named by Victor Hugo who was forced to exile himself in England for exercing his freedom of speach. (www.poesies.net/victorhugonapoleonlepetit.txt)
Napoleon 3 just like Sarkozy was a french parasite of the 19 century as mean and more criminal as Napoleon I but a lot more stupid and a total piece of shit just like Sarkozy. Napoleon the small did not fair better ever.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
stop listening to your wife. She has a vested interest. SHE IS A MUSICIAN.
True He should definitively stop listening.
She is not a musician. She think she is. She is a RIAA slut. Her lyric that she almost never write are stupid particularly the very few she actually wrote, (her rmusic that she did not write ever) is for brain damaged people and she sing like a fry pan. She his the product of the RIAA type of company marketing BS: ” I am showing my but and my boob on TV and I become famous type or “”"artist”"”.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
It is time for the swedish to start using TOR, may be for the French too.
Good! The more people are using TOR the faster it is! http://www.torproject.org/
With Tor nobody know what is sharing and by whom. Even the receiving client (who know what has been share of course) have no way to know were it is comming from. Also TOR evade sensorship and penetrate the great wall of china and North Corea with ease, In and out!
May 7th, 2009 at 1:00 am
What happened to that tyrannical dictator?
Death from poisoning by arsenic comes to mind.