[EUobserver] Netherlands looking to French-style crack-down on internet piracy

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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