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Swedish Pirate Bay trial waiting now for the decision
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Entscheidung im Schwedischen Pirate Bay-Prozess erwartet | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1331] The Pirate Bay trial in Sweden continued until 3 March 2009 with the hearings of the prosecution and defence witnesses. The earlier events of the trial were covered in the previous EDRi-gram. While a day before, the representatives of the […]
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HADOPI law close of creating a dangerous precedent
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [HADOPI-Gesetz schafft beinahe einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1309] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Законот HADOPI близу до креирање на опасен преседан | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1395/4/lang,mk/] On 18 February 2009, Christine Albanel, French Minister of Culture, presented to the Chamber of Deputies the controversial Création et Internet draft law […]
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Data protection authorities support civil society on the Telecom Package
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Datenschutzbehörden unterstützen die Zivilgesellschaft beim Thema Telekompaket | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1302] Macedonian: [Органите за заштита на лични податоци го поддржуваат граѓанското општество | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1382/4/lang,mk/] The Article 29 Working Group and the European Data Protection Supervisor have issued public statement supporting some of the arguments of the civil society, including EDRi, […]
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The trial of The Pirate Bay in Sweden
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Der Pirate-Bay Prozess in Schweden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1303] The big, long and extremely mediatized trial filed on 31 January 2008 by Swedish prosecutors against the four Pirate Bay founders for “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws” started at Stockholm’s District Court, on 16 February 2009. The first day […]
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Irish ISP settled to introduce 3 strikes
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The case introduced by IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Industry) against Irish ISP Eircom through which Eircom was required to block P2P filesharing by applying a filtering system to its network, was settled outside the court room. The music industry decided to drop the action provided Eircom introduces […]
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Pirate Bay in legal battle with IFPI
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The war between IFPI and the Pirate Bay continues with a new banning of the site in Denmark ruled by a Danish court at the beginning of February this year. Exactly a year ago, in February 2008, following an IFPI action, a Danish court ruled that Tele2 […]
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Spanish collective society fined for making clandestine wedding video
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) has been fined for having placed a private detective in a restaurant in Seville, in 2005, to film a wedding in order to prove that the restaurant was using music for which it had paid no royalties. The […]
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Changes in the telecom package adopted by the Council
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A political agreement on the telecom package was reached by the EU Council on 27 November 2008. Even though the final text does not support the 3 strikes measures proposed by the French Presidency, it has also deleted some important amendments adopted by the European Parliament in […]
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Sweden on the verge of passing the local IPRED law
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Sweden Government is to pass these days a controversial law that might give the entertainment industry some tools to track down those that illegally share copyrighted material on the Internet. The law, which is based on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED), has […]
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Foreign P2P software producers might be liable under the French law
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the beginning of November 2008, a French court ruled that the US companies that created p2p software can be sued in France according to French laws. The ruling refers to a case brought to court by the French music producers association – SPPF (Societe de producteurs […]
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One more step for France in adopting the graduated response
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Despite all opposition and debates, on 30 October 2008, a crushing majority of the French Senate voted in favour of the anti-piracy law, the so called Hadopi law, introducing the graduate response against illegal content downloading. The law enabling the introduction of three-strikes measure against file-sharers and […]
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Some amendments of the EP voted Telecom package still worrying
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Some of the amendments passed by the European Parliament (EP) on the Telecom package are still worrying the civil rights groups, both on data retention and IP issues. Also, the fact that some amendments of the EP do not appear in the new document of the European […]
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