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Downloadable games, flash-based games, and sites that sell physical copies of games with rating greater than MA15+ (suitable for 15yos) would be blocked, even for adults.

Australia’s ridiculous plan to censor the Internet gets more ridiculous by the day. [...]

“For one, this latest expansion of the scheme has to be seen in the wider context of the plan as a whole,” Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) writes in a press release responding to the news. “Sold to the electorate as a plan to protect children, it actually only targets websites that an adult is likely to encounter, and applies indiscriminately to all Australian homes and businesses. Due to technical limitations, it can’t and won’t stop the traffic of child abuse material. The blacklist is secret, there is no appeal, and what goes on there is controlled by Government. The potential game ban is only one alarming aspect of the plan as a whole.”

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86511/aussie-govt-to-filter-online-video-ga...

It appears that Norway has decided that it's sick of passing laws designed to prop up obsolete industry business models at the expense of individual privacy. First, the country started telling ISPs to delete log files after just three weeks (making it pretty hard to identify individual filesharers), and now it's refused to renew the license given to the one law firm allowed to sniff IP addresses in trying to seek out unauthorized file sharing. [...]

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090623/1924305338.shtml

It seems like the recording industry's grand plan to get ISPs to be their copyright police isn't getting very far. Consumer and legal backlash around the world seems to have stopped it cold. The latest is in Spain, where the entire concept of a three strikes regime has been taken off the table. Instead, the plan in Spain is to go after file sharing sites and services -- as we've seen them do a lot lately. The only problem? Spanish courts have found both that personal, non-commercial file sharing is legal and that sites that are merely pointing to content are not liable for whether or not the content is infringing.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090623/1918135337.shtml

Spain's cultural industry has accepted that the proposed disconnection of Internet users who ignore warnings not to download illegally is no longer an option. The about-turn by the Coalition of Creators and Content Industries follows indications that the government will refuse to implement any kind of "three-strikes" scheme.

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i8071e0d9c25cb...

UOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - In the wake of France's imposition of its controversial three-strikes legislation aiming to crush internet piracy, the Dutch parliament has called on the government to also deal harshly with offenders. [...]

"Governments must realise that the cost of repression exceeds by far the benefits and most of the time harms civil liberties," Jeremie Zimmerman of La Quadrature du Net, an internet freedom pressure group, told EUobserver in reaction to the release of the report.

"File-sharing is unstoppable anyway. The real question will be about how to use it to find new ways of funding creation. All conservative and repressive measures are bound to fail."

http://euobserver.com/19/28331

Germany is on the verge of censoring its Internet: The government – a grand coalition between the German social democrats and conservative party – seems united in its decision: On Thursday the parliament is to vote on the erection of an internet censorship architecture. [...]

The net community did not only oppose the governments plans, but also made constructive suggestions how to deal with the problem of child pornography without introducing a censorship architecture and circumcising constitutional freedoms.

http://netzpolitik.org/2009/the-dawning-of-internet-censorship-in-german...

Alys sez, "The Australian communications regulator is going to fine those who link to sites that are listed on their blacklist. It threatened an online forum with an $11,000/day fine over a link posted to an anti-abortion website that was on the blacklist. To add insult to injury, several pages of Wikileaks have also ended up on their blacklist, due to their posting of the Danish list of banned websites."

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/15/post-one-of-australi.html

Finalmente una buona notizia: La Corte Costituzionale francese rimanda al mittente la legge per la diffusione e la protezione della creazione su Internet, perchè non conforme ai principi costituzionali. Le Conceil ha invocato l’articolo 11 della Dichiarazione dei Diritti dell’Uomo e del Cittadino del 1789.

Esultano le associazioni francesi che si erano immediatamente mobilitate contro questa legge: “E’ una grande vittoria dei cittadini che hanno dimostrato di poter lavorare insieme per tutelare la loro libertà” dicono da La Quadrature du Net. “La Costituzione ci protegge” ha dichiarato uno dei fondatori, Philippe Aigrain.

http://pennedigitali.libero.it/2009/laccesso-alla-rete-e-diritto-inviola...

Frankreichs Verfassungsgericht kassiert ein umstrittenes Gesetz, das Filesharern den Internetzugang kappen sollte. Online-Aktivist Jeremie Zimmermann spricht im taz-Interview über das Urteil. [...]

Herr Zimmermann, das französische Verfassungsgericht hat am Mittwoch seine Entscheidung zum "Three Strikes"-Gesetz mitgeteilt, mit dem die Regierung Sarkozy versucht hat, radikal gegen Tauschbörsennutzer im Internet vorzugehen. Was kam dabei heraus?

Jeremie Zimmermann: Die Entscheidung des Gerichts entfernt aus dem "HADOPI" genannten Gesetz alle Bestrafungsvollmachten, die die extra dafür geschaffene Kontrollbehörde bislang hatte. Das heißt im Klartext, dass die Behörde zwar Beschwerden von der Unterhaltungsindustrie gegen mutmaßliche Dateitauschbörsennutzer erhält und diese dann per E-Mail an sie weitersenden muss, dann aber nichts weiter tun kann. [...]

http://www.taz.de/1/politik/schwerpunkt-ueberwachung/artikel/1/uebrig-bl...

France's highest legal authority struck down a key provision of a controversial law that would have cut off Internet access to people who repeatedly download copyrighted content illegally.

The decision is a setback for President Nicolas Sarkozy, who argued that the law was crucial to protecting artistic creation in the digital era. It was a victory for activists and Socialist politicians who bitterly opposed the law as an invasion of privacy. [...]

Jérémie Zimmerman, an activist who had opposed the law, called the decision "a great victory for citizens" and said that without the provision cutting off Internet access, the law was just a "big tax-sponsored spam machine."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124465744855102879.html

France's highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet.

The Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr Sarkozy's law, passed in April, which created the first internet police agency in the democratic world.

The strongly-worded decision means that Mr Sarkozy's scheme has backfired and inadvertently boosted those who defend the free-for-all culture of the web.

Les sages – the wise men – as the council is known, took the teeth out of the law. They ruled that "free access to public communication services online" is a right laid down in the Declaration of Human Rights, which is in the preamble to the French constitution. It also said the law breached privacy by enabling the HADOPI agency to track people's internet activity.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6478542...

Philippe Aigrain, professore di informatica a Parigi ed ex responsabile del settore tecnologie del software alla Commissione europea, autore di «Causa Comune: l'informazione tra bene comune e proprietà» e «Internet e Creazione: come riconoscere gli scambi su Internet e remunerarli», le cui idee sono diventate emblematiche per i militanti - non solo in Francia - della libertà di espressione su Internet, per festeggiare la sconfitta della legge Hadopi ha passato la giornata ieri a inviare messaggi di gioia a tutto il mondo. Ovviamente in Rete, via mail, ma anche sul sito del suo collettivo «La Quadrature du Net» (www.laquadrature.net).

http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?...

The French proposed "Three-Strikes" initiative (HADOPI), which would have seen illegal broadband file-sharers being disconnected from their ISP for repeat activity following a warning, has been dealt a serious blow by the highest jurisdiction in France - The Constitutionnal Council. [...]

La Quadrature du Net's Jérémie Zimmermann said: "This is a great victory for citizens who proved they can altogether act to protect their Freedom. HADOPI's 'three strikes' is finally buried. All we have now is a big tax-sponsored spam machine for the entertainment industries. But this is not the end of Sarkozy's will to control the Internet. The next law, LOPPSI, is already on tracks and will be about filtering the content on the Internet. Citizens must celebrate this great victory but remain watchful..."

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/06/11/french-court-deals-blow-to-t...

Word came through the grapevine today that France's "three strikes" HADOPI law has been struck down by the French Constitutional Council. While this is fantastic news, it's not exactly surprising--until this point, the constitutionality of the law had remained an open question. What's more, even if the law had survived the French Constitutional Council's scrutiny, it most certainly would have attracted the attention of the European Union, who in October of last year, passed an amendment prohibiting member states from implementing three strikes regimes. Luckily, the French Constitutional Council sided with the EU Parliament, going so far as to cite the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a founding document of the French Revolution [...]

Still, as Jérémie Zimmermann from La Quadrature du Net warns, Sarkozy might only be getting started when it comes to pushing the content industry's agenda. "The next law, LOPPSI, is already on tracks and will be about filtering the content on the Internet," Zimmerman writes. "Citizens must celebrate this great victory but remain watchful..."

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2355

France's groundbreaking "three strikes" law that would disconnect repeat Internet file-swappers has been overturned by the country's Constitutional Council. "Innocent until proven guilty" still means something in France.

The French Constitutional Council has ripped into the new Création et Internet law which would disconnect repeat online copyright infringers, calling the basic premise unconstitutional. "Innocent until proven guilty" remains a central principle of French law, and it cannot be bypassed simply by creating a new nonjudicial authority. [...]

There was no grieving from open Internet groups like La Quadrature du Net, which posted its response in the form of a picture.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/french-court-savages-3-s...

What can musicians do when nobody wants to buy their records anymore? Just take a glance into the World Wide Web and it’s clear to see: opportunities for becoming famous there have never been greater. But when it comes to making money, that’s when things get difficult. [...]

Jeremie Zimmermann, a net activist from Paris, who campaigns against the French law for Internet bans, which threatens users caught sharing files three times with a cap on their online access for a period of several months, no longer believes the concept of earning money with “1:1” copies, as he calls them, works. “It’s over, finished”, the 31-year old says. The digital era has simply made it too easy to reproduce content without any loss in quality and too difficult to explain to today’s users why they should pay money for digital content. He even has an idea at the ready how artists will be able to make a living in future. People are still willing to pay good money for events, concerts, meetings with stars or even merchandising.

http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/idd/en4635439.htm

You are killing our creative industries. "Downloading costs billions," said the Sun. "MORE than 7 million Brits use illegal downloading sites that cost the economy billions of pounds, government advisers said today. Researchers found more than a million people using a download site in ONE day and estimated that in a year they would use £120bn worth of material." [...]

Now I am always suspicious of this industry, because they have produced a lot of dodgy figures over the years. I also doubt that every download is lost revenue since, for example, people who download more also buy more music. I'd like more details. [...]

[...] the figures were wrong: it was actually 473m items and £12bn (so the item value was still £25) but the wrong figures were in the original executive summary, and the press release. They changed them quietly, after the errors were pointed out by a BBC journalist. [...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/05/ben-goldacre-bad-sci...

Trying to stop people sharing copyrighted material over the internet is a game of cat and mouse in which the pirates will always win and calls for internet service providers to halt illegal file sharing are "naive", according to the boss of Carphone Warehouse.

Instead, Charles Dunstone said, the solution is education about the benefits of respecting copyright coupled with services that allow consumers "to get content easily and cheaply". [...]

"If you try speed humps or disconnections for peer-to-peer, people will simply either disguise their traffic or share the content another way. It is a game of Tom and Jerry and you will never catch the mouse. The mouse always wins in this battle and we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/05/dunstone-carphone-warehou...

I have very divided feelings about these very divided French initiatives. On the one hand, I rather admire this bold attempt by a national government to defend and extend its national interests on the Internet. [...]

[...] On the other hand, check out the keen way that the French are also cyber-arming themselves for the eruption of utter anarchy. Not HADOPI, but the vastly more sinister LOPPSI. Yup, French cops sneaking into your laptop. [...]

The law will give the French police the possibility to physically or remotely install spying software to listen to electronic communications and introduces the Internet filtering by administrative decision. [...]

The French Government will always be able to extend the target by a simple decree. [...]

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/06/meanwhile-somewhere-in-fr...

In recent weeks, the chorus of calls for further "protections" for copyright owners has grown louder (see, for example, Mark Helprin's May 11 broadside in the Wall Street Journal against copyright critics: "Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft"). Yet these copyright apologists ignore how copyright owners overreach and hurt innovation. Representing more than 2,000 American technology companies, I see it differently - the rapid expansion of copyright laws threatens new and innovative products and services. [...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/copyright-needs-limits-as_b_2...

Copyright incentives and rewards to producers of works have been able to exist alongside other values, such as freedom of expression. However, changes in the way information products are being disseminated raise questions as to whether those values remain compatible with the new modes of dissemination.

So far, studies devoted to digital rights management (DRM) and copyright exceptions have noted, theoretically, its legal implications. This research filled an existing gap by looking at the impact of DRM on the ability of users to take advantage of certain exceptions to copyright through empirical lines of enquiry. [...]

Conclusion (1): Although DRM has not impacted on many acts permitted by law, certain permitted acts are being adversely affected by the use of DRM. [...]
Conclusion (2): This is in spite of the existence of technological solutions (enabling partitioning and authentication of users) to accommodate those permitted acts. [...]

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/25/freedom-of-expression-versus-d...

As some wonder if France's HADOPI bill would even be enforceable, the appeals process grinds on. [...]

This week in As The HADOPI Turns: Socialists! Frenchmen suing France! An estimate of takedown numbers that'll make you glad Christine Albanel isn't doling our your online time! Plus, evidence that it really can get worse. Très worse.

When last we saw France's Création et Internet law, which gives ISPs there the power to block access to the Internet for anyone accused three times of illegal file-sharing, it was on its way to the Senate and onward to the desk of President Nicolas Sarkozy. On Tuesday, several Socialist members of the French Parliament took their case to the nation's Constitutional Council, raising eleven points of possible conflict with the country's laws. [...]

http://www.betanews.com/article/French-Socialists-mount-constitutional-c...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Noted singer songwriter Billy Bragg has written an excellent column in The Guardian, coming out against the pro-RIAA '3-strikes' legislation the big 4 record labels are trying to push through. In the article, entitled 'Do we want ISP's penalizing our fans?', Bragg writes: 'Having failed miserably in previous attempts to stamp out illicit filesharing, the record industry has now joined forces with other entertainment lobby groups to demand that the government takes action to protect their business model.' He goes on: 'Fearful of the prospect of dragging their customers though the courts, with all the attendant costs and bad publicity, members of the record industry have come up with a simple, cost-free solution to their problem: get the ISPs to do their dirty work for them. They are asking the government to force the ISPs to cut off the broadband connection of customers who persistently download unauthorized material, without any recourse to appeal in the courts.'"

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/18/1555249

Svenska parlamentariker är ense om att internet och upphovsrätt fortsätter att vara heta frågor för EU de närmaste åren. Men det råder stor osäkerhet inför de samhällsförändringar som den digitala utvecklingen driver fram.

Mandatperioden 2004-2009 avslutades med att EU-parlamentet slog klubban i bordet och krävde garantier för internetanvändarnas rättssäkerhet. Ställningstagandet gällde telekompaketet, ett av flera nätrelaterade EU-ärenden där stora kontroverser uppstått. [...]

Internetaktivisterna är sammanlänkade i nätverk där information och idéer fortplantar sig brett och snabbt. Här finns enskilda medborgare utan formella kopplingar till någon organisation (exempelvis Gun Svensson, 72, som bloggar under namnet Farmor Gun, se separat artikel). Här finns också mer omfattande kampanjorgan med ekonomiska resurser, som franska La Quadrature du Net. Många EU-parlamentariker vittnar om det enorma engagemang de mött från detta håll.

http://www.dn.se/fordjupning/europa2009/internet-utmanar-eus-grundvalar-...

THE NATION that once chopped the head off a feckless king, and whose people gallantly resisted a fascist occupation, has just seen the liberté of its people betrayed by their own corrupt, corporate-owned politicians.

The French Assembly has voted to give the music and film industries the power to switch off the Internet access of anyone who they accuse of pirating copyrighted files. No evidence will be required nor will any court of law. ISPs will be notified directly by the music and film industries. Upon the third notice Internet users will be disconnected for a year but will still have to pay their ISP charges. [...]

What is even more scary is that France has delegated that power to a private cartel rather than the civil authorities. [...]

Socialist deputy Patrick Bloche, who voted against the bill, called it a "law of intimidation" that amounted to "a lose-lose situation for artists and for Internet users." He intends to ask the Constitutional Council, France's highest legal authority, to rule on the constitutionality of the law.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1137310/france-forgets-freed...

A law that could cost copyright violators their Internet service is the farthest-reaching action yet in the music and movie industries' battle against piracy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/technology/internet/13net.html?_r=1&re...

The French National Assembly ignored a vote last week by the European Parliament and approved its "Cr?ation et Internet" three-strikes bill on Tuesday.

The measure supported by French President Nicolas Sarkozy punishes digital pirates by suspending Internet service if they are caught illegally sharing copyrighted material. The vote comes a little more than a month after the same government body rejected the proposal.

It seems the vote by the French Assembly is in direct opposition to the European Parliament, which last week passed a measure prohibiting EU governments from terminating a user's Internet access without a court order. [...]

The legislation has proven to be quite controversial in France and throughout the world. It is considered one of the most aggressive digital antipiracy regulations out there, which has helped it win the support of the music and movie industries.
But consumer and free speech advocates have opposed the passage of such legislation, [...]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10238912-93.html

Imagine doing your democratic duty by e-mailing your member of parliament your opinions of a given issue. Now imagine that e-mail being shown to you by your boss right before you get fired from your day job. Apparently, one mans political opinion is causing a huge stir over in France right now - all over the French Three Strikes law which is currently being debated on again.

It’s being labelled as another black eye for the UMP over the three strikes law. The story goes that a man by the name of Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim who works for the French broadcaster, TF1. He sent an e-mail from his private e-mail account to his member of parliament, which just so happens to be a member of the current governing party pushing for the three strikes law. The office then allegedly forwarded that e-mail to the minister of Culture. The minister of Culture then forwarded that e-mail to RF1 apparently for information purposes. Jérôme was then brought in to his bosses office where he was shown a copy of the e-mail and then fired for “strategic differences” with his employer. [...]

Already, the Three Strikes law is being blocked by the European Parliament. Meanwhile, in France, the Three Strikes law sparked protests in the French arts community. Even the government is currently having difficulty passing the law as it was already defeated in France once - only to return once again after that defeat. [...]

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86195/mans-opposition-to-french-three-strik...

Even before it’s officially adopted, France’s controversial anti-piracy law has already claimed its first victim. Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim, head of web innovation at one of the largest TV-networks in France was fired recently because he criticized the law in a letter to his MP. [...]

While the general public is heavily against the new law, President Sarkozy has gathered enough support to get it signed into action. However, even before it’s officially adopted, heads are already rolling. The first victim’s name is Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim, who worked as head of web innovation at the largest TV network in France, TF1. [...]

In a democracy everyone is of course entitled to voice his or her opinion, but not in a demokarcy apparently. On 16 April, Jérôme Bourreau was fired citing “strong differences with the strategy” of TF1. So, his concerns with the new law were actually passed on to his employer by the MP. [...]

http://torrentfreak.com/tv-exec-fired-for-opposing-anti-piracy-law-09050...

The European Parliament has decided that ISPs and regulators, such as Ofcom in the UK, cannot restrict individuals’ access to the internet. [...]

Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, described it as a “victory”.

"A formidable campaign from the citizens put the issues of freedoms on the internet at the center of the debates of the Telecoms Package,” he said.

“The massive re-adoption of amendment 138/46 rather than the softer compromise negotiated by rapporteur Trautmann with the Council is an even stronger statement,” he concluded.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/102634,european-parliament-votes-in-favour...

Internet aż kipiał od protestów przeciw "cenzurze sieci". Żadnego zamachu na wolność nie było. Ale nikt tego nie sprawdził. Internauci chcieli dobrze, będą mieli gorzej [...]

To, co się przez ostatnie tygodnie działo wokół unijnego "Pakietu telekomunikacyjnego", przejdzie do historii jako przykład niebywałego nieporozumienia. Tysiące internautów - zgromadzonych wokół wielu pozarządowych organizacji, np. francuskiej La Quadrature du Net, szwedzkiej Partii Piratów, polskiej Grupy Jakilinux - głośno protestowało przeciwko tej dyrektywie. Mimo że - o ironio! - wprowadzała ona rozwiązania dla nich korzystne.

http://wyborcza.pl/1,75248,6579129,Pospolite_ruszenie_w_sieci_kula_w_plo...

The European Parliament has cast its final vote in favor of an amendment that will prevent member states from implementing three-strikes laws. Disconnecting alleged file-sharers based on evidence from anti-piracy lobby groups restricts the rights and freedoms of Internet users, according to the amendment. [...]

The entertainment industry, including Sarkozy’s wife, has has been lobbying for tougher anti-piracy legislation for years and despite the recently adopted amendment, France can not be forced to throw their “three-strikes” law overboard. Sarkozy himself put a lot of effort into ditching the amendment, as head of the European Council he already went against the democratic vote by rejecting it.

Nevertheless, the amendment was not adopted after a few months of delay. This is a step in the right direction, and it clearly goes against Sweden’s IPRED and France’s HADOPI laws. Let’s hope this will at least prevent other member states of the EU following the lead of these two countries.

http://torrentfreak.com/eu-rejects-three-strikes-legislation-for-good-09...

The European Parliament today sent a message to countries like France, as 88 percent of MEPs voted to require that judges be involved in any attempt to disconnect people's Internet connections. The issue threatens to hold up telecoms reform in the EU. [...]

"The massive re-adoption of amendment 138/46 [on graduated response] rather than the softer compromise negotiated by rapporteur Trautmann with the Council is an even stronger statement. These two elements alone confirm that the French 'three strikes' scheme, HADOPI, is dead already," said Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/european-parliament-smac...

The European Parliament has voted through a massive tranche of reforms for the European telecommunications sector, including a significant net-neutrality amendment. [...]

The digital rights campaigning group La Quadrature du Net said in a statement on Wednesday that the voting through of the Telecoms Package, including amendment 138/46, was "the final blow against three-strikes laws such as Nicolas Sarkozy's HADOPI bill, which are explicitly banned". Sarkozy's bill, which sought to let ISPs disconnect users suspected of illegal filesharing, was narrowly defeated in the French parliament in April. [...]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-299414.html

O Pakiecie telekomunikacyjnym ostatnio głośno. Jutro (dziś, bo już po północy) głosowanie w Parlamencie Europejskim. Teraz jest ten czas, w którym komentator może nareszcie zarobić dobre pieniądze. Dzięki Prezydentowi Lechowi Wałęsie wiem, że za "dwa razy po trzy minuty" wystąpienia mogę oczekiwać stu tysięcy dolarów (lub euro - w zależności od tego, czy się napracuję, czy nie). [...]

Poseł Czarnecki, poseł Czarnecki... Jest. Telecoms package directives 1st reading details by score. W zestawieniu "Kwadratury Sieci" poseł Czarnecki uzyskał wynik 36.2 punktów procentowych zgodności z ich poglądami. W materiale TV Puls wypowiadał się również Dariusz Rosati (Grupa Socjalistyczna) - w zestawieniu La Quadrature du Net uzyskał on wynik 47.5 punktów procentowych zgodności. Kolejny wypowiadający się w reportażu TV Puls polityk to Wojciech Roszkowski (Unia na rzecz Europy Narodów). W zestawieniu La Quadrature du Net uzyskał 43.8 punktów procentowych zgodności. Była również wypowiedź posła Bogusława Sonika (Europejska Partia Ludowa), który uzyskał w zestawieniu La Quadrature du Net 38.1 punktów procentowych zgodności z autorami zestawienia (czyli więcej od posła Czarneckiego, który nazywa się blogerem). Być może w zestawieniu stworzonym przez inne grupy lobbingowe posłowie ci uzyskaliby np. 80.4, 72.3 albo 69.8 punktów procentowych zgodności. Wszystko zależy od tego, kto robi zestawienie i jakie kierunki polityki europejskiej popiera. Chodzi jednak o to, że są tacy, którzy takie zestawienia robią, a inni czasem mogą zapoznać się z ich wynikami.

Można się zgadzać z La Quadrature du Net lub nie - "to nie jest czarno-biały film", ale przynajmniej odnotowali sposób, w jaki głosowali polscy parlamentarzyści i udostępnili takie zestawienia. [...]

http://prawo.vagla.pl/node/8481

Domstolsbeslut krävs för att stänga av internetanvändare. Det är EU-ländernas regeringar och Europaparlamentet överens om.
- En otrolig vinst för parlamentet, säger centerpartisten Lena Ek. [...]

När paketet lades på bordet 2007 innehöll det formuleringar som påminde om ett franskt lagförslag. Personer som anklagas för olaglig fildelning tre gånger på 12 månader skulle kunna stängas av från internet, det som man på EU-språk kallar för "graduate response".
- Om man lade samman de olika delarna av telekompaketet fick man "graduate response". Men de som påtalade det då ansågs vara paranoida, säger Jérémie Zimmermann, internetaktivist och talesperson för intresseorganisationen la Quadrature du Net.

http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=286&a=493193

Jutro oczy wielu internautów zwrócone będą na Brukselę. W Parlamencie Europejskim odbędzie się głosowanie nad nowymi poprawkami do pakietu telekomunikacyjnego mogącymi, w opinii niektórych, wpłynąć na przyszłości sieci. [...]

Zdaniem francuskiej organizacji pozarządowej La Quadrature du Net, powyższe poprawki zmienią model biznesowy dostawców usług internetowych. Nie będą oni już musieli dbać o swobodny dostęp do treści i usług. Będą raczej oferować dostęp do określonych usług, podobnie jak dostawcy telewizji oferują dostęp do określonych kanałów. [...]

Wśród grup sprzeciwiających się Pakietowi telekomunikacyjnemu prowadzone są różnego typu akcję. Strona http://stopcenzurze.wikidot.com/ zbiera podpisy pod listem otwartym sprzeciwiającym się pakietowi. Na chwilę obecną pod petycją podpisało się ponad 60 tys. Internautów wspomniana grupa La Quadrature du Net, oraz strona http://www.blackouteurope.pl/ nawołują do pisania e-mail do swoich europosłów w sprawie Pakietu Telekomunikacyjnego. Jednakże odzew wśród polskich polityków, koncentrujących się przed zbliżającymi się euro wyborami na lokalnych sprawach pozostał niewielki.

http://fakty.interia.pl/swiat/news/unia-ocenzuruje-internet,1301307

A key new amendment enshrining the operator's right to block Internet content will not be voted on. It is tucked into the "compromise" document, which will be voted as a block.This appears to be a breach of procedure and should be seriously questioned. [...]

The Parliament will not get the chance to vote on these amendments individually. Check the voting list, which is downloadable via the La Quadrature du Net website . The voting list is stitched up, so that this amendment will be voted within the "compromise" which is listed as amendment no 103. It should technically under the rules, be split out, because technically it is an alternative for the original Amendment 166 - Article 32a - and therefore the Parliament should have the opportunity to vote on it. Especially in light of its significance - as I have previously reported, it reverses existing principles in EU law, which guarantee end-to-end connectivity.

http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=334&I...

V Evropském parlamentu se schyluje k hlasování o výsledné podobě tzv. telekomunikačního balíčku. České předsednictví se pochlubilo dojednáním výsledného kompromisu, který se zdá být akceptovatelný jak pro europarlament, tak i pro Radu EU. Kompromis se ale týká i možnosti odpojování uživatelů Internetu, za kterou silně lobuje Francie. Jak byla tato záležitost vyřešena? [...]

Reakce na tento kompromis se podle očekávání značně rozcházejí, a to i v rámci tábora ochránců práv uživatelů. „Tvrdší“ linie, reprezentovaná například spolkem Quadrature du Net, vidí vše jako otevření dveří pro francouzskou gilotinu a celý telekomunikační balíček hodnotí jako zradu europoslanců na jejich voličích. [...]

Stále však není dostatečně jasné, jak se výsledný kompromis, zprostředkovaný českým předsednictvím, projeví na dalších sporných otázkách. Třeba ohledně síťové neutrality vs. síťové diskriminace, o které jsem psal zde na Lupě nedávno. O tom zveřejněná tisková zpráva českého předsednictví mlčí – a radikálnější zdroje, konkrétně La Quadrature du Net, to už vidí úplně černě: že veškeré navrhované pojistky proti síťové diskriminaci vzaly za své. [...]

http://www.lupa.cz/clanky/stalo-se-ceske-predsednictvi-zprostredkovalo/

Zawarty na początku ubiegłego tygodnia przez dwóch sprawozdawców Parlamentu Europejskiego i Radę Unii Europejskiej kompromis w sprawie unijnego pakietu Telecom osłabia dotychczasowe argumenty przeciwników rozwiązania pozwalającego na blokowanie dostępu do Sieci osobom łamiącym prawa autorskie. [...]

Ekspert od polityki i mediów Monica Horten uważa, że między Radą UE, a sprawozdawcami z Parlamentu doszło do zawarcia "paktu Fausta". Tym samym podstawowe prawa użytkowników padły ofiarą szybkiego uchwalenia unijnej regulacji telekomunikacyjnej. Również francuscy działacze na rzecz praw człowieka z organizacji La Quadrature du Net zarzucają parlamentarzystom słabość i bojaźń w obronie interesów społeczeństwa. Z kolei odpowiedzialny za wytyczną dotyczącą dostępu do Internetu poseł sprawozdawca Malcolm Harbour z brytyjskiej partii konserwatywnej ostrzegł przed zagrożeniem zmarnowania dwuletnich negocjacji z powodu kwestii niestanowiącej wcale centralnego punktu reformy.

http://tech.wp.pl/kat,1009785,title,Coraz-blizej-do-odcinania-obywateli-...

PARIS — A French “three strikes” plan for digital piracy is getting its second chance. As expected, the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy last week revived a proposal to crack down on online piracy by cutting off the Internet connections of people who ignored two warnings to stop unauthorized downloads of copyrighted movies and music. [...]

“If there is no legitimacy to the law, people will have more grounds to fight,” said Jérémie Zimmermann, director (ndlqdn Jérémie est co-fondateur et actuellement porte-parole de La Quadrature du Net) of La Quadrature du Net, an Internet advocacy group in Paris.

Any organized fight aimed at exploiting perceived inconsistencies between French and European Union law through the court system could take a long time.
In the meantime, even if the French bill passes, it could be a while before the procedure for cutting off Internet accounts goes into effect.
Under the proposal, Internet users who installed software to block unauthorized downloads of material would be exempt from the warnings and potential cutoff. Mr. Zimmermann said there was no such software available to consumers now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/technology/internet/04iht-net.html?ref...

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A second attempt by the French government to push through its "three-strikes" bill to crack down on internet piracy may yet fall afoul of European Union rules, following an ambiguous compromise agreed between the European Parliament and EU member states on a piece of telecoms legislation. Paris is confident that it can move ahead, while others believe to do so establishes grounds for the European Commission to begin legal action against France. [...]

French lawmakers are not expected to be caught out to lunch a second time and will likely approve the re-introduced law sometime in May. [...]

The Pirates are coming : In Sweden, a new political grouping whose platform focuses on internet freedoms, the Pirate Party, is vacuuming up the votes of young people and is on course to win at least one seat in the June elections. [...]

La Quadrature du Net, an internet-freedom pressure group prominent in campaigning against the three-strikes bill argues that the French law "remains as contradictory" to the compromise as it was to the original amendment. However, the group also thinks that there is sufficient ambiguity that now a lengthy court case will be required to prove that it does not respect the right to due process.

http://euobserver.com/19/28047

El último punto de discrepancia entre el Parlamento y los Veintisiete que había impedido el acuerdo se refería precisamente a la cuestión de las descargas de contenidos protegidos por derechos de autor. La Eurocámara quería que la legislación comunitaria dejara claro que no se podrá cortar el acceso a Internet a un usuario que realice descargas ilegales salvo si hay una decisión judicial previa.

Francia se oponía a esta disposición porque habría bloqueado la ley contra la piratería en Internet promovida por su presidente, Nicolás Sarkozy. De acuerdo con esta ley, una autoridad administrativa estará facultada para cortar de dos meses a un año el acceso a la red a quienes realicen descargas ilegales.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/04/29/navegante/1241006159.html

After an embarrassing legislative defeat, the French government has reintroduced its controversial three-strikes law to disconnect repeat Internet copyright infringers. As consumer groups protest, the European Parliament looks for ways to limit the entire process. [...]

But the European Parliament isn't keen on the idea, and has voted several times to basically ban such practices without judicial oversight. [...]

While the politicians clash, 'Net heads are taking action of their own. Sci-fi writer Roland Wagner, for instance, has organized his fellow scribes into a "Sci-fi against HADOPI" group, while the French Data Network organizes a May 1 protest march through the streets of Paris.

Being against HADOPI is one thing, but having a positive vision in place for the overhauling of copyright is another. Consumer groups including La Quadrature du Net and UFC Que Choisir have joined forces to launch Création Public Internet (a play on the bill's title), a project devoted to finding new business models and thinking about the important questions of cultural creation and artist income. Yesterday, they held a meeting in a National Assembly conference room to launch their new platform and kickstart a very different sort of debate on HADOPI, copyright, and the Internet.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/france-reintroduces-thre...

Os utilizadores franceses da Internet que partilham música ou vídeos sem a permissão dos seus respectivos proprietários estão mais parto de perderem o direito a navegar, agora que a Assembleia Nacional do país aprovou a chamada lei Hadopi, na passada quinta-feira. Refira-se que a lei foi apresentada pela primeira vez ao senado no ano passado. [...]

Como já seria de esperar, os grupos de defesa das liberdades civis e do software livre não tardaram a reagir. Embora alguns deputados, nomeadamente membros do UMP, tenham procurado emendar a nova lei, "nenhuma das aberrações técnicas, perturbações económicas ou ataques aos direitos das pessoas foram removidos da legislação, mesmo depois de termos alertado para a sua existência", sublinha Jérémie Zimmermann, porta-voz do grupo La Quadrature du Net.

http://www.computerworld.com.pt/site/content/view/6587/51/

El Parlamento europeo ha aprobado, una vez más, la enmienda que se opone al principio de respuesta graduada de la ley Hadopi.
Publicidad

La espina Hadopi acaba de hundirse un poco más en la piel del Gobierno francés. Después de su rechazo sorpresa a principios de abril por los diputados franceses, Bruselas asegura el clavo. El Parlamento europeo ha adoptado la enmienda 46-135 (anteriormente 138), por 40 votos a favor y 4 en contra. [...]

Si esta adopción “es una fuerte señal”, según la Quadrature du Net, es todavía pronto para que la oposición a la ley Hadopi cante victoria. La enmienda debe ser confirmada en sesión plenaria a principios de mayo. En cuanto a la ley Hadopi, el gobierno promete reintentarlo el 29 de abril.

http://www.siliconnews.es/es/news/2009/04/23/la_eurocamara_da_luz_verde_...

Az EP ipari bizottsága kedden este tárgyalta Catherine Trautmann, illetve Guy Bono jelentését, amelyben a politikusok azt javasolták, hogy bírói engedély nélkül is el lehessen rendelni a hozzáférések blokkolását. A testület a várakozásokkal ellentétben azonban meglepően nagy többséggel, 40 igen szavazattal, négy nem voks ellenében, két tartózkodás mellett mindkét előterjesztést elutasította. A bizottság egyúttal a korábban benyújtott 138-as, illetve 46-os kiegészítések eredeti változatai mellett foglalt állást, amelyek kimondják, hogy az internethozzáférések blokkolása kizárólag bírói engedéllyel valósulhat meg. [...]

A La Quadrature du Net francia civil szervezet üdvözölte a döntést és Jeremie Zimmermann társalapító kijelentette: "Ez egy újabb pofon Nicolas Sarkozy elnök HADOPI-programjának. Egyúttal jelzés is: Európában senki más nem akar ilyen törvényt hozni."

http://www.sg.hu/cikkek/66946/europai_tavkozlesi_csomag_biroi_engedely_k...

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The battle between internet pirates and copyright holders shifted to Strasbourg this week, with a move that threatens to hold up a major European Union telecoms bill and unravel France's flagship legislation on cutting off internet access for illegal downloaders.

[...]

In Sweden, the court sentence has, perhaps temporarily, pushed the Pirate Party, a political party that campaigns on similar issues, to be the number one choice of young voters, with almost 50 percent of young men under 30 saying they intend to cast their ballot for them in the June 2009 elections to the European Parliament.

Jeremie Zimmermann, of La Quadrature du Net hailed the MEPs' move: "The European citizens will remember this courageous stand. Members of the European Parliament honoured their mandates by standing courageously for citizens' rights and freedoms."

http://euobserver.com/9/27979

BERLIN — The governing party of President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, scrambling to save a national law that would cut off Internet service to those who make repeated illegal downloads, is threatening to block a European Union telecommunications bill that would undermine the legal foundation of the French plan.

[...]

Representatives of Mr. Sarkozy have spent the past week lobbying Brussels to eliminate the clause, which is part of legislation that has been two years in the making.

“What the conservatives are doing now is holding the entire European telecoms package hostage because of the French,” said Raphaël Delarue, a legislative assistant to Guy Bono, the French member of the European Parliament who proposed the ban on administrative sanctions for Internet piracy last year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/internet/21net.html

[...] In France, the Hadopi law, soon to be re-voted, would allow for a sliding scale of punishments up to and including cancellation of the internet connection.

But this contradicts the position of the European Parliament, which voted by 90 percent last September to urge member states safeguard rights and civil liberties, such as guaranteeing internet access.

France has tried several times to have the text withdrawn, and after several reincarnations it will finally be presented for a second reading in May. The ongoing argument over downloading shows just how complex the situation really is, shifting as it does between illegality and individual rights.

http://www.euronews.net/2009/04/17/experience-shows-internet-file-sharin...

Die französische Bürgerrechtsorganisation La Quadrature du Net zeigte sich in einer ersten Reaktion begeistert. "Das ist ein wunderbarer Sieg für die Bürger", schrieb Jeremie Zimmermann, Sprecher der Initiative. "Diese Abstimmung zeigt ihnen, dass es sehr wohl möglich ist, sich noch Gehör zu verschaffen. Es ist ein wunderbares Beispiel dafür, wie sich das Netz gegen die wehrt, die es kontrollieren wollen. Die Grundrechte werden nicht den Interessen einiger überflüssiger Industrien geopfert. Das HADOPI-Gesetz ist früher beerdigt worden, als wir vorausgesehen haben." Die Initiative will aber auch in Zukunft wachsam bleiben. Die französische Regierung habe weiterhin den Wunsch, das Internet unter ihre Kontrolle zu bringen, so Zimmermann.

http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1602192/

Jérémie Zimmermann [Co-founder and spokesperson, La Quadrature du Net]: "A controversial bill dealing with online filesharing was rejected by the French National Assembly in a very surprising move last week, at the final vote of the emergency procedure in which it was considered, (which means only one lecture in each room. such a last minute rejection happened for the last time in 1983). This law faced strong opposition coming from members of all the political parties, driven by a formidable and wide citizen movement lead from the Internet by La Quadrature du Net and others. The law is nonsensical, inapplicable and dangerous for numerous reasons: It allows for parallel administrative justice where innocents will be sanctioned based on immaterial proofs, private police of the network in the hands of corporate actors, and its Article 5 opens very disturbing doors to generalized filtering of content. [...]

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2009/04/french-legislatures-rejection...

[...] If those numbers seem low, they are--as The New York Times notes, "most of the 577-member legislature decided not to show up — an indication, analysts said, of how unpopular the proposal was among voters in France."

Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder and spokesperson for French activist group La Quadrature du Net credited the public's swift response and online activism. "This is a formidable victory for all citizens. This vote shows that it is still possible to make oneself heard. It is a fantastic example of how to use the Net to fight against those who are trying to control it," he said. "Individual liberties, in the end, have not been sacrificed to try to preserve the corporate interests of some obsolete industries."

Just as the New Zealand government did when its three strikes mandate was abandoned, the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to try its luck again with an amended version of the bill. And as is the case in New Zealand, it seems unlikely that they'll find success given both the intensity of the public outcry and the breadth of the international press' coverage of the botched initiative. The lesson here is that citizens will not stand idly by as massive corporations are given the power to criminalize and persecute Internet users without due process. [...]

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2087

A francia nemzetgyűlés az előzetes várakozásokra rácáfolva jelentős többséggel elutasította azt a javaslatot, ami a fájlcserélők netről való kitiltását is engedélyezte volna.

[...]Az első reakciók vegyesek. Jeremie Zimmermann, az internetezők jogait képviselő La Quadrature du Net igazgatója a polgárok és a polgárjogok győzelmeként értékelte a döntést a testületekkel, cégekkel szemben,[...]

http://index.hu/tech/2009/04/10/a_franciaknal_megbukott_a_fajlcserelotor...

Opponents also pointed out that users downloading from public WiFi hotspots or using masked IP addresses might be impossible to trace. Others called its proposed monitoring structures unrealistic.

"It is a bad response to a false problem," said Jeremie Zimmerman, coordinator of the Quadrature du Net, a Paris-based Internet activist group that opposed the bill, calling it "completely impossible to apply."

He said the bill's rejection is proof of a widespread sense that it was a draconian approach.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j4VjVAXxp684miiKgGtfUE...

Opponents also pointed out that users downloading from public WiFi hotspots or using masked IP addresses might be impossible to trace. Others called its proposed monitoring structures unrealistic.

"It is a bad response to a false problem," said Jeremie Zimmerman, coordinator of the Quadrature du Net, a Paris-based Internet activist group that opposed the bill, calling it "completely impossible to apply."

He said the bill's rejection is proof of a widespread sense that it was a draconian approach.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j4VjVAXxp684miiKgGtfUE...

[...] It is also a major embarrassment for Mr. Sarkozy, who has rallied sufficient legislative support for other measures popular with French media companies, like phasing out advertising on public television. [...]

Jérémie Zimmermann, director of La Quadrature du Net, an Internet advocacy group in Paris, described the outcome as “a huge political blow” for Mr. Sarkozy and Ms. Albanel. “It’s a victory for the citizens and the civil liberties over the corporate interests,” Mr. Zimmermann added.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/technology/internet/10net.html?_r=1&bl...

The French certainly have a flair for the dramatic, what with the recent kidnapping of bosses and the near-constant succession of transport and farmers' strikes. Even last night's "graduated response" vote featured its share of parliamentary theatrics, as the controversial Création et Internet law went down to a shocking 21-15 defeat.

That's right—"three strikes" has struck out in France. At least for now.

[...]

La Quadrature du Net, which has long opposed the plan, was ecstatic. "This is a formidable victory for all citizens," said Jérémie Zimmermann, one of the group's cofounders. "This vote shows that it is still possible to make oneself heard. It is a fantastic example of how to use the Net to fight against those who are trying to control it. Individual liberties, in the end, have not been sacrificed to try to preserve the corporate interests of some obsolete industries. The HADOPI law has been interred earlier than expected."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/french-3-strikes-law-suf...

La Quadrature du Net, an internet freedom pressure group, organised a campaign in which tens of thousands of websites across the country and beyond went dark in a 'black-out' protest against the measures.
Calling the bill a 'monster, the group criticised the majority deputies as pawns of President Sarkozy, who has made the bill a point of pride: "The powerless opposition confronted a wall of 'army boots' for the majority that were only there to vote according to the desires of the executive.
"The vote…is a symbol of the technological ignorance of a government and a majority in the service of a blind corporatism. The industries that required the Hadopi are not close to being saved [by this law], " said Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson for the group.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2009/gb2009046_905200.h...

Anyone who downloads films and music in France without paying will face up to a year's ban from the internet under a disputed law that is to be approved by the French parliament today. [...]

Critics, who include internet and civil liberties groups and some artists, are denouncing it as a breach of freedom that will not work. One internet campaign group called Quadrature du Net said that the law amounted to “imposing a social death sentence”.

They said that it would punish citizens whose internet access is used by their children, employees or people hooking into their wi-fi.

A group of French directors and actors, including Catherine Deneuve and Victoria Abril, published a protest on Tuesday. They urged film lovers to fight a law that was “demagogic, inapplicable and stupidly ignorant of new ways of downloading” creative work.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6062558.ece

La Quadrature du Net, an Internet freedom organization, also denounced the bills passage.

“The vote … is a symbol of the technological ignorance of a government and a majority in the service of a blind corporatism, ” said group representative Jeremie Zimmermann. “The industries that required the Hadopi are not close to being saved (by this law).”

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/85940/france-passes-three-strikes-law/

La Quadrature du Net, an Internet freedom organization, also denounced the bills passage.

“The vote … is a symbol of the technological ignorance of a government and a majority in the service of a blind corporatism, ” said group representative Jeremie Zimmermann. “The industries that required the Hadopi are not close to being saved (by this law).”

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/85940/france-passes-three-strikes-law/