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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Re:You obviously have no children

[ardle]

Ok, first off, take a look at this. How should the law follow nature in this situation?
Everyone would like to know that their children will be ok after they're gone.
If your copyrighted work is worth anything to society, then your children - and/or maybe their children - can benefit from that, for a start.

Which bothers you more, the idea of life being relatively hard for your children or the idea of strangers profiting from your work at your at your children's expense?