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."

Comments

Re:Don't forget the children!

[Anonymous Coward]

I know some people who watch Ranma 1/2 episodes on Youtube. Which says something, given the quality of the video, I'm not sure what. But it's not something available on TV, even any flavor of cable (Blame the Cosmic Zombie Jew who was His Own Father), in fact it's hardly available at video stores to rent. So are they helping a failed marketplace succeed despite it's best efforts?

Re:Copyright as an election issue

[montyzooooma]

"I wonder what they'll try to pull when everyone switches to encrypted and friend-routed sharing..."

Jesus! You mean I'm going to need friends now? Those fascists at the **AAs have found my weakness...