Paris, March 12th 2011 – BEREC, the body of EU telecoms regulators, has just published its preliminary findingshttp://berec.europa.eu/doc/2012/TMI_press_release.pdf regarding restrictions to Internet access imposed by operators across Europe. These first results confirm the reports submitted…
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been characterised by a flawed process of negotiations based on a flawed rationale, which has resulted in a flawed agreement, argue Sophie Bloemen and Tessel Mellema from Health Action…
Here’s a clip of a Danish TV show discussing ACTA, which Denmark has fiercely advocated in favor of. It starts with the head of a rightsholder society and the Danish trade minister quoting dodgy statistics…
Over the last two weeks, events have radically altered the course of the debate on ACTA and its ratification procedure, both at the EU and Member States levels. The tremendous citizen pressure definitely had an…
During the furor over sweeping anti-piracy bills in the US and Europe, a digital rights saga in Italy has gone largely unnoticed. Free speech groups have led a revolt against the so-called ‘Italian SOPA.’
Back in 2009, Arbor Networks, a company specializing in network management, announced that the peer-to-peer model of file sharing, wherein each client acts as a server, was in decline. Users were turning more and more…
The government seems to be failing in its attempts to reassure people that the trade agreement ACTA will not close the free and open internet […]
Protests against ACTA have been held in dozens of cities…
ACTA, l’Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ou Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon, est signé le 26 janvier par l’Union européenne. Une signature contestée, précédée et suivie de nombreuses manifestations et oppositions. Pourquoi ?
Tokyo, 26 janvier 2012, l’Union européenne…
It seems that the much-debated Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may very well be an agreement that is dead in the water. For several weeks now, the controversy surrounding this agreement has raised some strong and…
Last week, the Trade Commissioner De Gucht, the same who recently declared he was “not afraid of the anti-ACTA demonstrations”, went on to explain why, considering the wave of criticism on ACTA, he is now…