EU Says No To Three Strikes On Accusation Only; Requires Court Order
from the that's-a-start dept
One of the biggest problems with most of the proposed "three strikes" laws out there (the entertainment industry likes to call them "graduated response laws," but I prefer Bill Patry's recent description of calling them "the digital guillotine") is that it works based on accusations rather than actual conviction. This is a pretty significant issue if you believe in innocent until proven guilty -- combined with the rather long and detailed history of the entertainment industry falsely accusing people of file sharing. The EU Parliament has rejected the various three strikes laws as civil rights violations in the past, but the issue keeps coming up again (especially considering France is still insisting such a law is necessary. However, in the latest vote, the EU Parliament has said that no one should be kicked offline without a court order, meaning that a court would need to review any accusation, rather than just the ISP being told to kick those accused of file sharing offline.No restriction may be imposed on the fundamental rights and freedoms of end users, without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities … save when public security is threatened...Your move, France.
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May I be the first
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Correction
What the world have to know is that Napoléon (the current french président) is "dating" the whole music industry (in addition to the media and "classic" industry).
And so, he's just protecting his friends interests, by "giving birth" to laws fitting what they want and what they need. So he doesn't even give a damm on what people have to say.
In conclusion, these people (and my président first) want to control people. They're freaking out that people get liberties like that. They just can't permit it, cause under their republicans "clothes" they are dictators.
-=Resist=-
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rights
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You can see what's coming
Where they don't need the actual court order right away, just get one later.
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Democratic right
Btw. since the Telecoms package was not passed I suppose France is now free to introduce its three strikes laws anyway. At least it's my impression that they will have a couple of months before the Telecoms package gets passed.
The debate about the Telecoms package hasn't been only about the three strikes law, but has also revolved a lot around the question of net neutrality.
This quote by Malcom Harbour has upset a lot of people who have been fighting for net neutrality provisions:
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But...
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angry user
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Try me:)
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[dinosaur] "But it is a threat, if people can do this, what else will they be doing - first piracy, then terrorism".
I can see it now
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property seizure in US
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