Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA

forged writes "The Register already reported Alan Cox's involvement against the proposed European Union Copyright Directive before. Today, Alan Cox has issued a wake up call to the Linux community amid concerns that the pending EUCD could stymie open source development. "The directive, which was approved last year, extends European copyright legislation so that it is even more restrictive than America's controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."" If you haven't joined the EFF (or the equivalent in your country) , now might be a good time.

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Re:An European DMCA, the last thing we need...

[56ker]

"The EU is trying to take away a very good reason to live in Europe..." - and which good reason would that be?

Europe Trying to Outdo United States...Again

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm waiting for the kneejerk (emphasis on jerk) Euros to somehow blame this on the U.S. That's all Europe is good for these days. Whining and placating Palestinian terrorists.

Re:Europe Trying to Outdo United States...Again

[Anonymous Coward]

Ya let's not forget if Europe wasn't a pit of rabid anti-semites the jews wouldn't have needed the creation of israel in the first place. So i'm sick of all the israel bashing from europe. Gee if it wasn't for little european stuff like oh i donno...THE HOLOCAUST maybe the jews wouldn't have felt such a strong need for a jewish state in the first place...

Re:Europe Trying to Outdo United States...Again

[Anonymous Coward]

Good to know that I'm not the only one sick of the se socialist, eurotrash bitches.

They're just jealous. That's why they feel the need to try and put down America. Europe can't even get plumbing right.