Italy Proposes Law That Will Ban People From The Internet Based On Single Accusation Of Infringement From Anyone
from the seems-a-bit-strict dept
Glyn Moody points us to a frightening analysis of a proposed copyright law in Italy that seems positively ridiculous, in that you could lose access to the internet based on a single accusation (which doesn't even have to come from the copyright holder):1) citizens, outside of any judicial proceeding and without the right to appeal to the judicial authority, may be banned to access the Internet if ANYONE (a rightholder or an ordinary citizen) notifies a provider about alleged infringement of copyright or trademark or patent ("one strike" disconnections);The post notes that this law would be compliant with an early version of ACTA, and suggests that this was done on purpose. However, the report also notes that this proposed law would clearly not be compatible with current EU law. Either way, that's quite a wish list from the entertainment industry.
2) Internet service providers must comply to the blacklisting of citizens who are *suspected* of copyright or trademark or patent infringements ("proscription lists" to ban citizens from any access to the Net);
3) an Internet service provider must use preventive filters against services that infringe copyright, trademark or patents;
4) an Internet service provider must not promote or advertise, and must use preventive filters against, services that do not directly violate copyright, trademark or patents, but that *may* lead citizens to *think* that infringing services exist;
5) a provider or a hosting provider which does not use effective filters will be charged with civil liability.
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Ban 'em
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Re: Ban 'em
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I believe you mean compliant. Feel free to delete this after fixing or if I'm just plain wrong.
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I see that you have made a typo. Did you mean 'compliant'?
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Paolo
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Paolo
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"an Internet service provider must not promote or advertise, and must use preventive filters against, services... that *may* lead citizens to *think* that infringing services exist;"
"Think that (they) exist), not think that they're not infringing, but merely that they're there? So, pretty much any news site, every tech site and every piece of information about ongoing legal battles? I wonder where this list of such services would come from, as well. Would iTunes be able to get Spotify blacklisted if they try entering the Italian market?
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The fourth rule of the Centemero draft law is, do not talk about the Centemero draft law!
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Re: not a "hoax"
Paolo
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> surely? I mean, even at a glance it's unworkable
> in any plane of reality.
Never underestimate the seriousness of crazy people.
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So all news organizations will lose their internet access, but thankfully so will any anti-file sharing groups since campaigns against file sharing lead me to think such services exist.
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Because you can't fit that much shit in a shoe
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Response to: HothMonster on Sep 19th, 2011 @ 1:25pm
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Double plus ungood: wikipedia refs unperson mike masnick.
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Next? You buy DVD's of course. Duh!
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I hereby accuse the following persons of illegally downloading the Hurt Locker:
[see enclosed phone book]
Sincerely, a concerned person
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So- rock on lobbyist-funded Italian politicians? Way to cut off your own arm in an attempt to thwart the mosquito that's biting the back of your hand? It's not personally my thing but I guess some people enjoy exercises in futility?
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This is ripe for abuse.
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Hey why not ???
Won't take long for that silly law to be wiped off the books.
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Here is to hoping some of our ACs are italian
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Wait...
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Phonebook
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Ummm
Fuck the Italian Government.
Fuck those who work for it.
and
Fuck those that do not stand against it.
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That would be so awesome!
After this law causes the whole country's internet to die, we should be able to slap the media folks to death with the corpse, right?
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Twice in one day??????
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Re: Twice in one day??????
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Italy will remove itself from the internet.
Of course, since the one strike system will remove all the customers from the internet as well, I suppose that won't make much of a difference.
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Re: Italy will remove itself from the internet.
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Kill the Internet?
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Re: Kill the Internet?
They don't want to turn off the internet, they just want it to become a broadcast medium. It's great for delivering metered content to you, but it sucks if you can use it to compete with them by distributing your own original works.
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Newspapers, government institutions and Corporations who routinely plagiarize and steal content will get a free pass as usual.
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Self-Inflicted Injury
Remember, nobody should get sympathy for self-inflicted injuries.
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This will get interesting pretty fast.
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Didn't hear abot this law
actually the latest try to enforce the law it's in an halted state with the head of communication guarantee Corrado Calabr� that just told he's not going proposing a 3strike law however they're already discussing other issues (but with the actual instability we have, i don't know how much enforcement can be done, people here is angry for other issues and lately there where violent protests too).
About the notice, it's possible that a deputy has proposed a bill like that, it happen often, but those bills are usually sank in few time; if you count how many bills like this one where proposed (many of them came from oversea pressure), you can tell that this one it's probably another unnecessary alarm;
I will investigate more and report if i get more info about.
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Ok , this deputy is responsible of the law http://www.camera.it/29?shadow_deputato=302950 ,
the proposed bill, in italian unfortunately, here http://www.camera.it/Camera/view/doc_viewer_full?url=http%3A//www.camera.it/_dati/leg16/lavori/stamp ati/pdf/16PDL0051750.pdf&back_to=http%3A//www.camera.it/126%3FPDL%3D4549%26leg%3D16%26tab%3D2
t he law was proposed on july 11 and discussed on sept 12 but i can't find anything about sept 12 activities so it's probably still placed on a dead road.
Stupid politicians from Berlusconi party proposed many times similar bills, this one will never pass.
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She seem to be another Berlusconi's man, that tell a lot.
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census!
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Burn
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distract me
step 2. propose ridiculous law that gets all the press attention whilst an intern buries the corpse in Berlusconi's hooker-graveyard (application applied to extend the ground due to lack of space)
step 3. ??????? (thats the public being confused about the new law)
step 4. profit (i.e. Berlusconi doesn't go to prison and gets to sit on many more hooker-faces)
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yeh
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banning
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This internet thing....
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update: the never ending story
The bill has been proposed again from deputy Centemero Elena, from another party composing the actual government, there wasn't any fixes on the bill.
Now Giovanni Fava has reclaimed the copyright got that bill, and submitted a takedown notice to the isp responsible of the parliament website; use a translator for this page for more details: http://pierani.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/tensione-alla-camera-tra-pdl-e-lega-per-violazione-di-copyri ght-su-fine-opera-satirica-in-forma-di-ddl/
I would tell that this is hilarious, but unfortunately this peoples are ruling my country so i don't have anything to laught about.....
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Re: update: the never ending story
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Who will guard the guards?
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today i searched again and found another article, in particulare italian Agcom (Authority for Communications) is discussing if a proposed bill can be covered by copyright since a bill proposal it's a work payed by taxes and a public work.
I'm still doubting about the copyright takedown notice because it's crazy thing, if i found more i'll update again.
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Please shut down Walmart and Amazon
That leads me to believe that infringing services exist.
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