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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show as much spine as the French

[sconeu]

You don't understand. Those cheese-eating surrender-monkeys CAVED IN to the Evil Terrorist Content Pirates[tm].

Clearly we must support our patriotic "content producers" to defeat the evildoers.
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Human lifespans will soon double.

[Anonymous Coward]

And technology will eventually allow for immortality. Governments should be praised for planning for the near-future.

Re:Rather than abuse of Copyright

[QuantumG]

Another good reason to be reluctant to become a copyright holder.

Re:Now is the time for reform

[mouko]

3. Death of the registered person means death of the copyright (you can't encourage dead people to make new works no matter how hard you try) Yeah? What about Tupac?

USCongress::EUParliment as Kindergarten::College

[OldHawk777]

Politicians in the USA are not stupid, just uneducated and inexperienced.

EU politicians serve the national interest, US politicians serve private interest.

The public/citizens hope that the national/private interest will provide some trickle-down benefits.

So, US citizens get neither national/personal security, nor economic/infrastructure stability.

Dogma4US is a sacrificial religious cult, much like Catholic ...to... Islamic clergy death goDma.

As long as you (citizen) suffer/sacrifice and not me (politician/plutocrat) ... it is not a problem for US.

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