EU Poised to Attack P2P File-Sharers

Robin Gross of IP Justice writes "The EU is about to vote on a controversial piece of legislation that targets P2P file-sharing and other non-commercial infringements. The EU Intellectual Property Rights Directive creates a 'nuclear weapons' of law enforcement tools for intellectual property holders. It combines the most extreme enforcement provisions found throughout Europe and imposes them collectively onto all of Europe, for example England's Anton Pillar orders that permit recording industry executives to raid and ransack the homes of alleged users of file-sharing software or it's Mareva injunctions that freeze a defendant's bank accounts without a hearing. The vote in the EU plenary will likely be March 11, 2004 - watch the CODE site for developments."

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Fuck the EU

[ksemlerK]

I'll propably get modded down for this, but I don't really give a flying fuck. I am sick of the EU thinking that they are so fucking great, just because they have many countries that are members that span a contident. They have made thier oown cross-country currency called the Euro, (what an original name, NOT), but that is not a bad thing. Personally, I think it would b a lot better if there was only 1 currency worldwide just primaily for the ease of cinversion. But that is not what I am bitching about.

What I am bitching about is that the EU wants to become the next world power. One question, How the hell are they going to manage this, unless the individual countries lose thier soverntey, and become like states in the US with a centeral govonrment? I think that this is the next step, and it is going to suck. All signs point to "yes" for this happening. The EU took on MS, but that is usually the private domain of an individual country, not a conglomeration of shitheads. Plus, how long so you think that this stability will last? Not too long. The UN was founded on the same idea of nations joining together for the good of them all, but have we ever had peace among all nations involved in it? NO! Did the Versillis treaty prevent WW2? NO, did the Warwaw pact get anything useful done? NO! Communism failed, as it is a flawed system. so why o people think that the EU will succeed? History has shown that "unionised" countries are not very productive. What's next? A worldwide religion containing all the major beliefs from all of the religions except Christianity? Plus, the US has more tactical nuclear weapons than all of the european contident, within 45 miniutes, we could destroy every life form on the planet, and render the EU radioactive for 10000+ years. Eat Shit EU! We dont need you!