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EU Proposing to Make P2P Piracy A Criminal Offense
brajesh writes "The European Commission is pushing for a proposal (.pdf) to crack down on organized piracy, which could also make indirect copyright infringement a crime across Europe, with implications similar to the recent MGM v. Grokster U.S. Supreme Court ruling. If the directive is adopted, developers who create software for file sharing that is then used for illegal ends could potentially be criminally liable in EU member countries." From the article: "The problem here is some activities, such as the creation of software, can be used for legal and illegal purposes, as is the case with Grokster...It gets really messy, because it is unclear what is legal or not legal, and it is problematic to operate with such abstract terms."
Crowds of file-sharing enthusiasts herded into makeshift prison camps.
How nostalgic for Europe.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
I am going to blame beer for making me share sex with girls that I may not have otherwise had sex with. Please governments of the world...save me!
I'm working on a good joke about your mom being
Better to err on the side of money... er, caution.
Don't just stand there, get that other dog!
Cisco will have to stop making routers. They send my copywritten movies across the internet, don't they?
The other day I boarded me PC and headed out on the wide open network seas of information to find me some poor bloke's PC to board and swaggle all his mp3's for fear of me runnin' him thru with me l337 computer hacking skills. But to me su'prise, there were all sorts of bloke's wandering around the network seas INVITING me in to their cabin to rifle through their hoard of files in the hold's of their PC's! Shiver me timbers! They paid good drinkin' money for their massive hoards of music and movies and then started magically duplicatin' 'em and givin' to all us pirates FOR FREE!
Unhappy as a parrot without a shoulder, I turned me PC back around to head back to port 80, for me horn-swagglin' days of maurauding the wide open network seas were thru - for there be no one left to steal from these days!
I'm sensing a bit of negative attitude here.
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NO! You can't copy floppy's, that's wrong! See this if you don't believe me!
common mistake. Europe is free as in shareware.
Today the famous inventor Johannes Gutenberg was sentenced to 200 years of hard labour for creating, distributing and using machine for massive copyright violations.
Him so called "Printing Press" could produce hundreds and thousand copies of one book just for one week.
Pirates have used it in enormous proportions to execute undreamed copyright violations.
This had caused a big loss in book sells and SCWAA estimates them at 1 000 000 in gold.
This evil invention had taken the work and bread of more than 10 000 script copy writers, letting them and their families live in misery.