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URGENT! Europeans! Last chance to save Europe from worst copyright law in the world!
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by mtippett | April 23, 2007 at 04:24 pm
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From the good folks at BoingBoing:
EFF's Danny O'Brien writes with this urgent message for Europeans:IPRED2, the insane EU plan to criminalise almost all copyright violation (meaning that rightsholders could pressure the police to prosecute companies they don't like - eg a Euro-YouTube on the taxpayer's dime, and even join police investigation teams as "experts" to assist looting and destroying business competitors), will be voted on on April 25th.
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at 17:39 on April 23rd, 2007
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.
But the article is confusing. What's it mean?
Fight the amendment, vote no?
Or support it, vote yea?
It was really not clear what the amendment was for.
at 02:09 on April 24th, 2007
Mike, thanks a lot for bringing up this subject. What your excerpt describes is happening as we speak. Since there seems to be a governmental "anything goes attitude" in Europe (just as in much of the rest of the "Free West", the laws often only seem to legalized practices introduced anyhow. As an example, according to press reports German customs searched booths of Chinese exhibitors at the Hanover CeBIT computer fair for alleged infringements of IPR while the fair was in full swing. Thousands of Germans did not receive MP3 players they had ordered from China, because it looked to similar to a brand player (no fruit logo applied, and clearly visible other brand name). What we see is a kind of new witch hunt, with some players abusing the cluelessness of politicians to further their own commercial ends. Mike, thanks for trying to create awareness anyhow. Good stuff.