ISP Filters & Copyright Extension Defeated In EU

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Last November, EU regulators in the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education began looking at how culture affects the economy and recommended a 'balance between the opportunities for access to cultural events and content and intellectual property' saying that 'criminalizing consumers so as to combat digital piracy is not the right solution.' Industry lobbyists, of course, immediately sprang into action to try to turn that around, writing amendments that would set up mandatory ISP copyright filters and extend EU copyrights to match the USA's life-plus-70 term. Thankfully, the committee rejected all of those amendments: 'Clearly, they're not going to let the ITRE or the European recording industry push them around, which is great news for Europeans. Now if we could only get the US Congress to show as much spine as the French (ouch).'"

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[jaxtherat]

Seriously, what the fuck is up with this shit? Can't we do something about these 'nigger' trolls OTHER than reading at +1 only? This nigger stuff is either spread by immature 13 year old fucktards who giggle when someone says penis, or anti Slashdot trolls on someone's payroll out on a mission. And what gives you the right to disrespect the dead!

My advice to you, 'nigger' trolls:

Stop being a moron, you're wasting precious moments of your life that you will be regretting on your deathbed, which if Heath is anything to go by may not be when you are 70. Either way, get a life and FUCK OFF!

Also, I realise I'll be modded down for feeding trolls and being off topic, but I feel I have to speak up, as if nothing happens soon I'm leaving Slashdot for good (and no doubt many others).