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Music Industry 'trying to hijack EU data laws'

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the burden-of-proof dept.

sebFlyte writes "The recording industry is trying to hijack the EU's data retention directive, which is being brought in to fight terrorism, to try and get their copyright battles fought for them. As previously reported, the EU may be making copyright infringement a criminal offence, and the Creative Media Business Alliance is lobbying hard to stop the European laws on data retention being restricted to cover terrorism and organized crime (as is currently proposed). In essence, they want to be able to get police to search through newly extended records from ISPs to look for evidence of illegal filesharing. In the words of the executive director of the Open Rights group, 'the music industry's attempt to hijack this legislation is a travesty and a gross affront to civil liberties and human rights.'"

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  1. Re:I guess it's important to talk about it by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I honestly firmly don't care about music, songs, movies and enterntainment in general. But I do care about things like biological/technical/scientific advances. But for those advances I am against patents, not copyrights. In fact I am pro-copyrights because they let me control how my work is distributed. So for me what music industry is doing sounds reasonable.
    Reasonable? Did I read properly? Reasonable? Reasonable?

    You call "reasonable" breaking customer's computers by stealthily installing crippling software?

    You call "reasonable" (sic) levying a special tax on blank media, "just in case" the media is used to "pirate" music?

    You call "reasonable" blackmailing people who MIGHT have shared music into paying multi-thousand dollars "settlements" without any proof of wrongdoing?

    You call "reasonable" (I'm not making this up!) trying to force all society to use specially-designed hard-disks that will check whether the data they are writing is copyrighted?

    You call "reasonable" treating your customers like criminals?

    You call all the abovementionned **ARROGANCE** "reasonable"?

    I'd hate to see what you call "unreasonable"...