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The European Parliament voted the Telecoms Package
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Package of rules governing the Internet and telecoms sectors proposed by the European Commission in view of supporting competition and providing clearer information and a wider range of services to consumers was approved by the European Parliament on 24 September 2008, in the first reading. The […]
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Sarkozy snubbed by Barroso in the three strikes approach
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Barroso, President of the European Commission has refused French President Sarkozy’s request to withdraw Amendment 138 included in the Telecoms Package recently voted by the European Parliament. Amendment 138 which basically reinstates the legal issue of the freedom to communicate of Internet users, reaffirming that only threats […]
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RapidShare needs to check every file for copyright infringement
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Hamburg court in Germany has ruled that the free file-hosting service RapidShare.de is not doing enough to combat piracy, so they should check content for copyright infringement before it is made available on the Internet . The decision was given in the legal conflict between RapidShare […]
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An update on the Italian PirateBay case
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Bergamo Criminal Court overrules the seizure, but establishes a case law that is a violation of civil rights. On 16 August 2008 ALCEI reported to the Italian Data Protection Authority the violations of law contained in the pre-emptive seizure order issued by the Justice for preliminary […]
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Spain: Indexing torrent files is not copyright infringement
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The case of Sharemula.com, the eDonkey website publishing links allowing users to download movies, music and software has been recently dismissed by the Provincial Court of Madrid which ruled that the website was operating legally. The case had been brought to court by the Federación Antipiratería (Anti-piracy […]
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The telecom package debated by the European Parliament
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament (EP) discussed on 2 September 2008 the draft directives to reform the EU framework on electronic communications (telecom package). Besides the debates on the telecom issues, the MEPs have discussed the role of the ISPs in combating Intellectual Property Rights violations and the modifications […]
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French law on 'graduate response' opposed by ISOC Europe
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Chapters Coordinating Council of the Internet Society (ISOC-ECC) issued a press release on 5 September 2008 expressing its opposition against the “graduated response” proposed by the so-called HADOPI law presented to the French Council of Ministers in June 2008. The same arguments were also submitted […]
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Two Danes found innocent of illegal downloading in a Wi-Fi theft case
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 5 September 2008, a Danish court decided that two woman that had been taken to court for illegally sharing music by Antipiratgruppen, anti-piracy affiliates, were innocent. The two women claimed they had not been the authors of the infringement, having been subject to WiFi theft. Antipiratgruppen […]
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Italian justice wants to "seize" a foreign website
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an investigation started by the Bergamo Prosecutors, an Order of the Justice for preliminary investigation of the Court of Bergamo was issued on 1 August 2008, asking for the “seizure” of the PirateBay website, hosted outside Italy, for displaying a collection of links to allegedly illegal […]
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France pushes for ISPs' involvement in fighting illegal file sharing
Christine Albanel, the French Minister of Culture and Communication, has gathered her European homologues for an informal meeting in Versailles on 21 and 22 July 2008 in an attempt to push the French Hadopi law model to be embraced by Europe. Some of the main issues approached during the meeting were piracy, telecommunications reform, the […]
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Copiepresse attacks EC for copyright infringement, but gets dismissed
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belgium newspaper Association Copiepresse has initiated a legal complaint against the European Commission (EC) arguing that it infringes its copyright through the NewsBrief and NewsExplorer aggregation services. Copiepresse became famous for its copyright suit against Google and other search engines claiming copyright infringement over the aggregation […]
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New threats for UK file-sharers
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) After the letters sent from Virgin Media to its customers on alleged file-sharing activities, British Telecom (BT), the UK’s largest broadband provider, has started a similar activity. The Register has received information from one of the BT subscribers that has received such a letter from the Customer […]
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