EU tells music and film industry to sod off
INTERNET ACCESS is a human right and the music and film industries can not cut people off from it without providing legal evidence of wrongdoing, according to the EU.
The EU assembly voted 407 to 57 to throw out a compromise reached by EU governments that would have allowed France to cut off Internet access to people accused of downloading illegal copies of movies or music.
According to the AP lawmakers reinstated an earlier demand that "no restriction may be imposed on the fundamental rights and freedoms of ... users, without prior ruling by the judicial authorities."
Quite where this will leave the French government, which has ordered its lawmakers to agree to a law that will force ISPs to cut off people's Internet access if a movie or music industry company tells them to, is another matter. After all, it's not like it has a reputation for surrendering. µ
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Well, I'm French. And I love being part of Europe when I read that type of news. Some might say "common sense", but hey, that did not stop the law being voted in...
First let me thank the French that they actually voted this braindead law into existence so that the EU got off their fat behinds and did something about it.
But now the French are in an unprecedented dilemma. Should they surrender to the EU or should they surrender to the MAFIAA (IFPI or whatever).
What about the Republic of Ireland then?
We are in the EU, still the biggest ISP here (Eircom) has officially agreed with the music industry to use the 3 strikes method, no questions asked!
Is Ireland not considered the same as all the other EU countries?
Will this overrule their signed agreement??
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@nmesisca
Well, now you can sue Eircom. That a private company decides to do something illegal is very different from a country voting said illegal practice into law.
Still, be prepared to fight for your rights.
Its such a shame for the 57 people who were promised cash incentives for voting. Who else in their right mind would vote to remove some of their liberty unless they had some sort of incentive first.
Either that or they are all "Sun" readers and misunderstood who they should have been voting for.
I'd like to see the names of those 57 rats who opposed the bills. To make sure they don't get re-elected.
From the EU Parliament site, the 'rats' are as follows:
ALDE: Cavada, Cocilovo, Cornillet, Costa, Deprez, Fourtou, Gibault, Susta
IND/DEM: Wojciechowski Bernard
PPE-DE: Ashworth, Berend, Bowis, Březina, Brok, Bulzesc, Callanan, Casini, Chichester, De Veyrac, Ehler, Elles, Esteves,
Gaľa, García-Margallo y Marfil, Garriga Polledo, Graça Moura, Grossetête, Guellec, Harbour, Heaton-Harris,
Hieronymi, Hoppenstedt, Jarzembowski, Karim, Lamassoure, McMillan-Scott, Mathieu, Mavrommatis, Mayer,
PV -90- PE 626.190
Mladenov, Morin, Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Papastamkos, Pinheiro, Purvis, Saïfi, Sanz Palacio, Schöpflin, Sudre,
Toubon, Van Orden, Vatanen, Vlasto, von Wogau
PSE: Rosati
UEN: Basile, Rutowicz
I think the EU and the music and film industry should be told to fucoff from france.