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New EU IP Law Deemed Harmful
JPMH writes "The Register is reporting on this alert from FFII about a new EU Directive on IP enforcement due to go to the Parliament legal affairs sub-committee on Monday, and full Plenary in two weeks time. The detailed text of the measure was only published on Tuesday. FFII says that without better defined safeguards the Directive will lead to a far more agressive, lawyer-driven legal environment for creative businesses. Having seen how similar legislation is used in the United States, FFII fears that it will provide the perfect means for agressive litigators holding dubious intellectual property rights to "pull a SCO" and use the powers of the Directive to seriously harass and damage small open-source projects and innovative businesses. FFII has a list of MEPs to contact here." The law has been described as a DMCA on steroids. We've reported on this before, but it bears repeating...
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It is strange and weird, but we have to thank SCO.
Usually, when freedom loving people (like ourselves) say oppose laws that seem good, people look at us like we're nuts, and we have to construct some worst case scenario. Usually, the worst case scenario is pretty far fetched, so the average idiot won't believe us.
Thank God for SCO. Their greed is a blinding beacon that provides a real-world example of just how screwed up the system can get when the use of "Intellectual Property" is brought up.
They are providing everyone around the world who opposes these types of laws a perfect case of bad laws gone worse, justice run amok, and scumbag "technology" companies that have more lawyers than engineers (or in Disney's case, more lawyers than animators).