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."

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All you who think the EU isn't bought....

[kcbrown]

...can shut up now.

Nobody to speak of except big multinational corporations want draconian copyright legislation, and yet said copyright legislation is exactly what the EU is passing.

What more proof do you need that the EU is bought and paid for just like the US? Individual freedom and self-determination don't matter any more in the face of corporate profits there any more than in the US (which is to say, not at all).

And with Russia and China both either already totalitarian or damned close to it, there is hardly any place in the world where individual freedom is cherished.

Soon, there won't be any place left on the globe where individuals are free. So enjoy what freedom you have. At this rate, you won't have it for long.

Re:Don't forget the children!

[Conor Turton]

The people who whine about this shit don't understand that it just isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. A very small amount of the population stands to lose, while more of the population stands to gain.

Stupid fucking moron. The people who are losing are the people who create it. With games for example costing £millions to make, eventually they'll get to a point where they can no longer afford to do it and go out of business so anything they would have come up with in the future no longer happens. Who wins then? It's the fucking morons like you who are the ones who don't understand.

I bet you still live at home with your parents and are at best a wage slave.