EU Publishers Want a Law To Control Online News

suraj.sun writes with news that European publishers are also seeking ways to "protect" their content from the big bad intertubes. Their rant, termed the "Hamburg Declaration," asks the government to step in with a legislative fix. "Most of the statements in the relatively short declaration, which will surely take its place among thousands of other European declarations on intellectual property and other matters that have come out over the past few years, hinge on the idea that 'universal access to news' does not equal 'free.' In this respect, the publishers want to maintain the democratic ideal of a 'fourth estate' that provides news to an informed citizenry, while simultaneously restricting access to that news to those who can pay for it directly. What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers' favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol, the force of law."

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Re:What garbage

[Freetardo Jones]

And it's doing even worse at all those things in relation to the current one. The current regime went from zero to corrupt in a time span that would make even Dick Cheney's head spin.

Re:Simple depiction

[freedom_india]

Don't get all miffed up.
The GP is probably from Alaska, US.
This is state that routinely has the highest unmarried pregnancy rates in the World.
It also has the lowest literacy ratio of US since most kids are "busy" instead of studying.
It also is the home to the some of the lowest IQ candidates, a.k.a Sarah Palins' all around: beautiful, blonde bombshell, bimbo and utterly brainless.
Oh, it is also the most corrupt state in US and EU combined: Bridge to Nowhere, Million dollar bases, sneaky permits to burn up forests, etc.
The GP is like Sarah Palin: Since he lives under these "wonderful" conditions in Alaska, this must be the same everywhere in the world!