EU rejected anti-filesharing laws
European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net. The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament. But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the report which said net bans conflicted with “civil liberties and human rights”. It puts MEPS at odds with governments planning tough action against pirates. “The vote shows that MEPs want to strike a balance between the interests of rights holders and those of consumers, and that big measures like cutting off internet access shouldn’t be used,” said a spokeswoman for the European Parliament after the vote.
The amendment was added to the so-called Bono Report on the Cultural Industries. This was written by French MEP Guy Bono to inform forthcoming European parliament policy that would encourage growth in the region’s creative industries. The amendment called on the EC and its member nations to “avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness, such as the interruption of internet access.” The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents Europe’s music industry, said the amendment was “badly drafted” and contradicted the rest of the report. The vote has no legal force and leaves national governments free to implement their own anti-piracy plans.
Source: BBCÂ
Comments(28)
Good news!
if country leader politicans think otherwise, their country dhould be htrown out of EU
Booooo!
The vote has no legal force and leaves national governments free to implement their own anti-piracy plans.
Just hot air from Brussels
Another fictional law that has nothing to do with reality. They can still bust my ass for downloading single MP3. What do I need such law for?
If any of you have ever been in court then you know that this EU ruling gives a fantastic leverage in winning your case as you and your legal team argue that it is ruled by the EU that it is against your civil liberties and human rights to be stopped from file sharing if you so wish.
@6: No, that’s not what it said at all. Read it again. It gives no protection for filesharers, other than saying they shouldn’t lose their internect connection for doing it.
I wish that the companies would just get rid of stupid region protections and improve their online distribution methods.
Making it so that BD discs are almost half as expensive and released earlier in the US then slapping a crappy Region A block just forces me towards piracy.
And offer a digital download where you also get a physical version (CD/DVD) in the post. Mp3’s are great but harddrives can fail.
Do all that rather than just targeting people for keeping up with technology.
Hooray for non-binding EU directives.
This changes nothing.
you can still go to jail w/o affecting your internet connection , LOL
who thinks,we need atleast one country where we can host our all legal-illegal files without any worries ,
can some one write here some names of countries where we can do so
i think all pirates needs a different country
sweden
china!
Here on Spain you can download Music/Videos if you have “non-profit” intentions. In other words if you download this things and they are only for YOU, and you are not reselling them They can not bust you. That is called here as “Private Copy”.
I’d rather go to jail or pay 1 million Euro than be banned from the internet my entire life. Imagine sitting there 2050 without internet, you would be a bum.
In Switzerland its legal to download but its illegal to upload Stuff
Hah, glad I’m not in America
If you solve problems with methods that konflicts with civil liberties and human rights you are taking a giant leap backwards. Any officials who would support such a solution should be ashamed. Wise decision from our officials. They need to find another way to fight this war against piracy.
As a pirate myself I hope they fail there too.. heh
@4,9
Maybe they should decide first which parliament has the power to decide and only then make decisions.
Seems a bit pointless to decide something that is not binding, they still get the same money for the decision but could they not try find something worthwhile to do with their time.
@16 Also there is democracy and rest of europe has politicians..
Is the EU a governmental body that can make laws for every country in Europe? I don’t understand what it does, since people here are saying that it can not make laws that are binding.
What is the purpose of the EU if it can not make laws that are binding?
@21
They a governmental body, setup by the member states of Europe, so that we can act like one country, a “United Sates of Europe”. They introduce laws which they believe will benefit the whole EU community, but most find that they usually conflict with their own internal laws and the EU laws end up having precedence.
That’s what happens in the UK at least, but if you are in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, etc, they usually just get ignored and us Brits are the ones who loose out!
It is a vast, buearacratic system, costing billions of dollars to run and the only winners are the politicians who run it and have their snouts in the trough.
The UK would be better off out of it, but we have a socialist government, at the moment, who think we don’t need to vote on things within Europe that might affect us, as we won’t understand the complexities, so they ride rough shod over our rights to a free vote on treaties, new laws and decisions, which affect our everyday lives.
The EU benefits those who are employed by it and no one else and we end up with stupid laws, which everyone execpt the UK ignores, anyone for straight bananas!!!
forget busting you, all the isps are doing now to circumvent having to do that is throttling connections to ridiculously small amounts.
the UK has a socialist government? lol!! the uk currently has a neo-liberal government – one interested in the middle-classes.
Hardly socialist (calling labour socialist 20 years ago would be stretching it, since the Clause IV amendment they haven’t been at all).
I love how a few british people seem to think they are the only people who pay attention and everyone else ignores it – the idea is simply stupid, and anyone who spent more than 3weeks a year in europe (on holiday in the sun at that) can see that.
Nice to see how distorted your image of the EU is, popalu..
EU follows strict rules of subsidiary principle, so basically it has now applicable power over the Countries in the EU, unless the new laws are crucial.
Now they are discussing the treaty of lisbon to have common directives.
This decision is good in the way that it was not the opposite, i.e. file-sharing laws would be approved. This should give the governments of EU countries an example of how to handle the situation, despite the EU has no absolute influence on the policies of it’s countries.
“Allways look on the bright side of life..”
You can free Download at http://UPLOAD.mine.nu
eventually all p2p will be baned. it will happen eventually. then we’ll all have to pay for rapidshare accounts or newsgroups. that is the future. bet on it.
popalu Is right. The UK should leave the EU, together with Poland and all American colonies. Other than that any lawyer, barrister or judge in the UK will tell you that the Human Rights Act (in effect the EU constitution) is the best thing to have happened in the UK because for the first time the UK had laws protecting the human rights of its citizens.
And the UK is a socialist country? You call forced adoptions and the power the Social Services have socialism? The UK is a Nazi country.
http://www.fassit.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/aug/24/childrensservices.politics
http://www.forced-adoption.com/introduction.asp
Welcome to the United Nazi’s of Britain. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
So popalu, you’re right. Your country that is on the verge of bankruptcy should leave the EU. And before you whine that the Uk economy is doing so ‘good’ while everyone else’s is doing so badly look into where the money is coming from. Maybe the huge amounts of money being borrowed to keep the British economy afloat will wake you up because someone will have to pay that debt back one day. Not to mention the billions upon billions that go missing everywhere.
The economic policies of the UK are a failure. The social policies of the UK are a failure. Nothing the UK has done after Thatcher has been good. She was the best Prime Minister the UK has ever had and Blair was a useless tin pot dictator and so is Brown, you Brits are just too blind to see it.
The great heaven that is the UK… I know people who came to the UK fleeing other countries and then left the moment they could. “They didn’t flee their dictatorships to live in a country like the UK”. According to the BBC 66% of the country want to get out, heaven indeed.