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By: Torrent Base » France Rejects 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law

Torrent Base » France Rejects 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:23:20 +0000

[...] month the European Parliament indicated it was opposed to “3 strikes” legislation when it defined Internet access as a “fundamental [...]

By: France to block Pirate Bay, disconnect p2p-TorrentFreak « FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:57:47 +0000

[...] so, only last week the European Parliament spoke out against such disproportionate legislation by adopting a report that aims to protect the rights and freedoms of Internet users and excludes ‘three [...]

By: » Paul Haig Day Song, by Toad

» Paul Haig Day Song, by Toad — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:41:39 +0000

[...] at the moment: three strikes and you’re out internet disconnections. The European Court has ruled against this nonsense on the basis that the internet is becoming a fundamental utility in the Twenty-First Century, but [...]

By: France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers | IDTorrent Blog

France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers | IDTorrent Blog — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:21:54 +0000

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News Torrents » France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:00:29 +0000

By: France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers | CyberLaw Blog

France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers | CyberLaw Blog — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:27:54 +0000

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France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers | InstantIdiocy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:59:50 +0000

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Weekend Round-up | Guess List — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:36:31 +0000

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By: No ‘net boot for EU p2p-Mashable « FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:51:13 +0000

[...] time, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, which speaks about security and fundamental [...]

By: EU Rejects ‘3 Strikes’ for File-Sharers | The tech blog

EU Rejects ‘3 Strikes’ for File-Sharers | The tech blog — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:42:44 +0000

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By: Nefertiti

Nefertiti — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:22:19 +0000

millions of French people are against that 3-strikes law, the French representatives have received a lot of bad feed-back from their voters… only the government and its too numerous followers at the parliament are trying to pass that shameful law against the democratic will!

By: Money, Technology and Health » Blog Archive » EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:02:58 +0000

[...] time, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, which speaks about security and fundamental [...]

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Monday Morning Head-Start [Software Business Links] « OMS SafeHarbor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:16:56 +0000

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By: On the Gripping Hand » EU rejects “3 Strikes” for Filesharers

On the Gripping Hand » EU rejects “3 Strikes” for Filesharers — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:45:11 +0000

[...] Torrentfreak there is a report of an EU vote (481 in favour, 25 against and 21 abstentions) to accept a report [...]

By: rawr

rawr — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:05:58 +0000

It’s a sad day when an american like myself would actually want to move to europe based soley on the fact that they seem to care more about the people then the american government.

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:59:06 +0000

@42

No actually the french people won already. Sarkozy and MAFIAA loving clique lost

By: EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | Programming Blog

EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | Programming Blog — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:04:37 +0000

[...] time, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, which speaks about security and fundamental [...]

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Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:43:11 +0000

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renaissance chambara | Ged Carroll - Links of the day — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:26:43 +0000

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By: EU-Parlament stimmt gegen 3-Strikes « 11k2

EU-Parlament stimmt gegen 3-Strikes « 11k2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:02:06 +0000

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By: EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | World News

EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | World News — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:45:31 +0000

[...] time, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, which speaks about security and fundamental [...]

By: EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | TechWeb

EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | TechWeb — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:37:19 +0000

[...] time, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, which speaks about security and fundamental [...]

By: EU rejects ‘3 strikes’. « Rob Jackson

EU rejects ‘3 strikes’. « Rob Jackson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:47:21 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:50:21 +0000

Bravo Lambrinidis :)
nice to see the EU realising the importance of the internet, and refusing to agree with kicking people off it over something so petty as corporate profits

By: EU Rejects 3 Strikes for P2P file-sharers

EU Rejects 3 Strikes for P2P file-sharers — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:36:48 +0000

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By: extu

extu — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:11:14 +0000

Maybe I should move to Europe…

It seems like USA gets worse and worse by the day.

Limiting freedom, turning into communism, corrupt politicians everywhere…
Disgusting…

By: European Parliament doesn’t like ‘3 strikes’ anti-piracy schemes | FocuSoft Tech Blog

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:12:45 +0000

[...] with the countless measures, motions, proposals and whatnot. The latest one to interest us: the passage of a report that rejects the use of so-called “three strike” anti-piracy schemes, like the one currently [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:02:41 +0000

” Why don’t they focus on taking peoples cars away for drink driving?

Is their priority really to punish people for taking a COPY of a file rather than punishing someone for killing someone through drink driving?”

you fail at debate.

By: EU rejects ‘three strikes’ approach to filesharing | GadgetFun.Net

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:23:52 +0000

[...] The EU has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a report that heavily criticises the ‘three-strikes’ law implemented in Frace that would kick filesharers off the internet after being caught downloading copyrighted content three times. It’s been massively unpopular with everyone except the content industries, with ISPs in particular fighting against having to cut off their own customers. Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis fought back against the idea too, with his report being overwhelming voted in – 481 votes in favor, 25 against and 21 abstentions. Whether or not this will force France to back down is yet to be seen. Sarkozy doesn’t have a great track record of obeying the EU parliament. Still, it should lessen the pressure on Irish ISPs who are being forced by their content industries to enact similar rules. (via TorrentFreak) [...]

By: Virate

Virate — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:26:51 +0000

What? The French LOST??

*slaps face in awe*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:12:12 +0000

FFFFF YEA!!!!

By: money guy

money guy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:09:53 +0000

Thank god they rejected this! So many freedoms lost … More and more sniffing on our traffic, and restrictions, fortunately this stupid motion didn’t get passed!

Money Guy
http://finance-proxy.com

By: basement dweller

basement dweller — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:01:27 +0000

All right, taklamakan, that makes more sense and sounds about right ti me, but you initially flat out said “The EU-Parliament has no power at all”, which is clearly incorrect.

But true, this is only a “recommendation” and the parliament is the weakest of the entities inside the EU. Nevertheless we should take part in the upcoming election process and let our voices heard in June.

“Baseball is not very popular in the EU, huh?”

What’s that? ;)

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Thank You, EU « 1 Blank Page — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:39:05 +0000

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By: Welshie

Welshie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:24:41 +0000

This is good news :)

I always thought it was crazy that you could get arrested, tried and put in prison for filesharing, but then you could use the computers in prison to fileshare some more…

Whattaworld!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:04:36 +0000

@33

It’s not just banning people from the internet that isn’t feasible. It’s the whole system.

Despite all of the MAFIAA’s cage rattling, their 3 strikes law is something we’ll never see successfully implemented because you need realtime packet monitoring against a database of everything copyrighted, ever, to pull it off… Along with no margin of error.

A manned flight to the sun is higher on the list of things likely to happen. But according to what the copyright lobby says, it sounds like it’s just around the corner, doesn’t it?

Hah!

By: Scooopy.net » European Parliament doesn’t like ‘3 strikes’ anti-piracy schemes

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:00:46 +0000

By: InTheSea

InTheSea — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:36:09 +0000

America sucks. Long live EU!

Here in Portugal our phonographic industry all it says is that it should do more propaganda against file sharing, more commercials and sh!t. No 3 strikes law or fines.

After all here in Portugal it’s not a crime to possess any kind of drug.

By: Fin

Fin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:34:41 +0000

@32 I have no problem with ID cards, it’s not as if our government has people silly enough to copy large pieces of it onto unencrypted disks that get lost in the post.

Or that put it on pen drives and loose them on public transport.

Or print off top secret documents and leave them on the train.

Not at all, our government is totaly competent to start including biometric data into this information so it is perfectlt secure – sans total incompetence as standard on their side….

By: Scooopy.net » EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet

Scooopy.net » EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:29:59 +0000

[...] time, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, which speaks about security and fundamental [...]

By: La Unión Europea rechaza la desconexión por usar P2P | Denken Über

La Unión Europea rechaza la desconexión por usar P2P | Denken Über — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:09:08 +0000

[...] más allá de lo que yo crea (que es irrelevante) la realidad indica que la Unión Europea por tercera vez rechaza esta idea y tiene argumentos similares a los que yo plante… (respuestas desproporcionadas, desligamiento de responsabilidades del estado, violacion de [...]

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:52:44 +0000

Banning people from the internet just isn’t feasible. It’s as good as stopping someone ever earning a decent living.

By: EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | New Web 2.0 Magazine

EU Says No to Kicking File Sharers Off The Internet | New Web 2.0 Magazine — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:25 +0000

[...] time, the European Parliament has voted in favor of a report from Greek MEP Stavros Lambrinidis, which speaks about security and fundamental [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:09:06 +0000

Kudos to the EU parlaiment, what with their pressure on Westminster stopping the national ID card scheme in Britain (Your papers citizen – show them to me) I for one welcome our Elected Eurpopean Overlords.

fin I am all for the id card! long doesn’t screw up and costing in wast etc. I mean underage drinking to illegal aliens etc. why not have ID? not against liberty just so we know who you are etc.

By: mister_playboy

mister_playboy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:06:52 +0000

Hell yes!

Good news today!

By: taklamakan

taklamakan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:54:17 +0000

@25: Yes, they are allowed to vote for or against a law and try to change it two times. If the European Council doesn’t like the changes, they can block passing the law by not agreeing on it. Even if the Parliament would stop a drafted law by vetoing on it, the Council can bypass the Parliament by titling it “European Regulation” on which the Parliament has not right to veto.

Anyway, this is not a law and not even a draft, they are not allowed to draft a law. This power only has the European Commission. This is a “report”. Its nonbinding and can be ignored by the European Commission and the Council.

Thats why I’m saying they are powerless in giving such a report.