The Internet, November 27th 2010 – The decision to sentence the co-founders of The Pirate Bay to jail is both absurd and unfair. It illustrates how an obsolete copyright law and its indiscrimate application are…
Si les petites associations militantes (notamment dans le logiciel libre) se sont largement élevées contre ce projet, c’est désormais aussi le cas du Cigref, le Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises.
Le plus souvent, le Cigref…
Paris, November 24th 2010 – The European Parliament has just adopted a resolution approving the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The adopted text fails to criticize the elaboration process of ACTA and its potential impact on…
The European Parliament approved a resolution Wednesday signaling its willingness to support a controversial trade agreement aimed at boosting international cooperation in combating counterfeiting and piracy.
The parliament called on the commission “to confirm that ACTA’s…
Paris, November 23rd, 2010 — After last week’s release of the final version of the ACTA text, the European Parliament is about to adopt a resolution preparing the upcoming ratification process, during a plenary session…
Paris, November 19th, 2010 – In a letter sent today to Commissioner Neelie Kroes, in charge of the Digital Agenda, La Quadrature du Net calls on the European Commission to take concrete steps to protect…
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
The Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built…
La commissaire européenne chargée des nouvelles technologies, Neelie Kroes, est favorable à un Internet neutre, où chacun peut accéder à tous les services et contenus, et s’est dite prête à agir si nécessaire pour l’assurer,…
Today, Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson of La Quadrature du Net, participates in the Net neutrality summit co-organized by the European Commission and the European Parliament in Brussels.
As the negotiations on ACTA come to a close, it is important to stress one more time the basic flaws of this dangerous anti-counterfeiting agreement, which compiles outdated and very controversial provisions from the United…