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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Heath Ledger, dead at 28

[Anonymous Coward]

I just read some sad news on the internet tubes - Actor Heath Ledger was found dead in a Manhattan apartment today. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly a faggot cowboy icon.

Re:Wrong drugs

[Jewfro_Macabbi]

The drugs which killed Health Ledger are the ones sold by white guys - in suits.

Oh, to die young, rich and buttfuckingly hot.

[Anonymous Coward]

Heath Ledger will be a legend like James Dean, Hendrix or Cobain. He went out at the top of his game, after topping Jake Gyllenhaal. His "Joker" character in the upcoming Batman will immortalize him much the same as Raul Julia was immortalized as M. Bison.

R.I.P. Heath
You Ruled

Re:show as much spine as the French

[earthforce_1]

> The two together is just about as close to Christmas in January as you can get

Actually, Christmas does fall in January if you belong to one of the few Christian groups who use the Julian Calendar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar

Re:Heath Ledger: buttfucking in Heaven

[jaxtherat]

Flamebait?? Huh?? I'm not trying to start a flamewar, I'm just at a loss to communicate my frustration with Slashdot lately. If you're gonna mod me down, at least do it sensibly, like Offtopic or something.