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EU Approves New Stricter Anti-Piracy Directive
A Pirate writes "The European Parliament has voted for the new report submitted by Italian parliament member Nicola Zingaretti that criminalize even attempts to infringe on copyrights. Even if the new directive excludes end-users from the law it will still criminalize sites like YouTube and practically all P2P services, and even the developers of these services. The exceptions beside the end-users' personal use, includes studies and research. While the European Parliament apparently describes the new directive as a an attempt to harmonize the copyright laws of the European Countries others have been describing it as a lobby directive."
Now maybe Europeans will start making music and movies and writing books. Until now nobody there had any reason to produce art -- it would just have been pirated, so what would have been the point?
Does the European Parliament ever actually do anything non-fascist?
If they have, can someone tell me about it? I'm starting to get an extremely negative impression of them, here.