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Bulgarian Police ordered ISPs to block US-based torrent tracker
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 16 March 2007 the Bulgarian special forces for combating organized crime ordered the major ISPs to filter the access to and from the web site arenabg.com, a torrent tracker hosted in the US, claiming that it was the source of copyright infringement activities. Only three big […]
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Belarus blocks again Internet websites
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 March 2006, several Belarusian web-sites: ucpb.org, svaboda.org, charter97.org, belhelcom.org, belaruspartisan.org, gazetaby.com and livejournal.com providing independent news and information were unavailable from 9.00 till 16.00 within the country borders. Belarusian authorities have the technical and legal possibility to restrict access because of Beltelecom monopoly. According to […]
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French draft decree regarding the right to reply on the Internet
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Ministry of Culture has forwarded to the European Commission a draft decree for the application of the right to reply legislation introduced by art. 6 IV of the law on Digital Economy of 21 June 2004 (‘Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique’ or LCEN) […]
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YouTube blocked for 2 days in Turkey
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The video-sharing website Youtube, was blocked on 7 March 2007 by a court order in Turkey, after some videos insulting Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had been uploaded on its servers. The ban was lifted two days later, when the videos were removed from the website. […]
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ENDitorial: French law on delinquency: the threat to FoE is elsewhere
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The new French law for the prevention of delinquency is yet another vehicle to worsen penalties and to increase the prerogatives of the police, when infractions are committed through or using the Internet. The main purpose of this law is to reduce the limitation of penal responsibility […]
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Censorship in Belarusian Internet cafes
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belarusian Council of Ministers adopted on 10 February 2007 a new act on the Regulations on Functioning of the Computer Clubs and Internet Cafes that will impose new censorship rules on all the persons that use the public Internet access points. According to the new regulations, […]
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MEPs support again the rules on defamation in Rome II
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Parliament has voted in its second reading on the Rome II Regulation to reintroduce the rules regarding the defamation by media or publications via the Internet and other electronic networks. The Rome II regulation is establishing the rules on the applicable law to non-contractual obligations. […]
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Towards a committee for French on-line services regulation ?
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) French Internet regulation history seems to repeat itself, as shows a recently unveiled administrative decree project, which aims at creating a “National Commission for the deontology of on-line public communication services”. The Commission would be in charge of elaborating “deontological recommendations” towards professional on- line communication services, […]
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EFFI won a court case about donation-pages in Finland
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Helsinki district court released 31 January 2007 Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) from charges on illegal fund raising on the Internet. The board members faced criminal charges and it was further demanded that EFFI transfers all illegal donations totalling over 4000 euros to the state. The prosecutor, supported […]
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New Italian law to block child pornography websites
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) At the beginning of 2007 a ministerial decree was signed by Communications Minister Paolo Gentiloni that obliges Internet Service Providers to block child pornography sites within 6 hours from being announced to do so. The body that has the responsibility to notify the ISPs on the sites […]
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EDRI signs the Joint Statement for SCCR 1st Special Session
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights’ (SCCR) Special Session is taking place right now at Geneva. The meeting (and another in June 2007) aims to fix the proposed Broadcast Treaty so that it could be ratified by the end of this year in a diplomatic conference. […]
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New Audiovisual Directive: First Reading in EU Parliament completed
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 13 December 2006, exactly one year after the presentation of the revised directive by the Commission, the European Parliament’s Plenary voted on a report on the draft Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS) that was prepared by the Parliament’s Committee for Culture and Education. In December 2005, […]
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