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UK Prepares Own Version of the DMCA

Posted by michael on from the bow-to-the-inevitable dept.

philkerr writes "I've just been informed by the UK Patent Office, below, that the EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive, the equivalent EU legislation to the DMCA) consultation paper has been released. It's important that we give feedback to the UK government that this legislation will have a chilling effect on the software industry." NTK has a few choice words on the subject as well. We've done several articles on the EUCD before, and Alan Cox has been campaigning against it, but it appears that the fix is in: Europe is going to get DMCA-like laws implemented in each nation by the end of 2002.

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  1. Welcome Aboard! by carrier+lost · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The only good thing I can say about this is, at least it will put an end to all the Euro-weenies who keep bragging about how they don't "have laws like that here."

    :)

    MjM

    --
    XKCD:Xeric Knowledge Comically Dispen
  2. haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    haha i guess alan cox will have to stop acting like a pompus ass now...

  3. Re:Right bloody fuck up, wot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    cheers mate, can i bum a fag off ya? no i ain't a bloody twink, i just want a fag.

  4. stop whining ya panzies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    oh boohoo you can't pirate some dvds, oh poor you.

    If you lived in palestine the israelis can and do just come in your house, kick your ass, throw your family on the street, destroy everything you own and then bulldoze your house. And no it's not becuase you are a terrorist it's becuase they want to put up an illegal colony on your land. Oh well it's luxury housing for some israelis and the refugee camp for you, oh well such is life on the westbank, to bad the rest of the world doesn't care.

    ya lets have a big protest becuase we can't legally make divx out of all our mpaa dvds...boohoo.

    Do you even see how lame the shit you complain about is?
    it's pathetic.

  5. Re:Don't Care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How about all the refugees in the australian detention camps?

    Ya lets put a bunch of starving families in some tin shacks in the middle of the desert and throw away the key.

    Wow you are just so fucking generous.

  6. Re:Name a country, any country... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shut up, commie!