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Europe To Block ACTA Disconnect Provisions
superglaze writes "The European Commission is 'not supporting and will not accept' any attempt to have ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) force countries to disconnect people for downloading copyrighted material, a spokesman for the new EU trade commissioner has said. All the signs are that the new commission, which took office earlier this month, intends to take a hard-line stance against US proposals for a filesharing-related disconnection system. 'Three strikes' is allowed in EU countries, but not mandated by the European government itself, and it looks like the new administration wants to keep it that way. From trade commission spokesman John Clancy, quoted in ZDNet UK's article: '[Ac ta] has never been about pursuing infringements by an individual who has a couple of pirated songs on their music player. For several years, the debate has been about what is "commercial scale" [piracy]. EU legislation has left it to each country to define what a commercial scale is and this flexibility should be kept in ACTA.'"
Big Corporation: This software needs a bugfix. ...
Open Source Advocate: Yes, please fix it and submit a bugfix.
BC: But that's not our area of work. You said open source is better solution than proprietary software.
OSA: It is.
BC: Why?
OSA: Because it's open and free.
BC: How does that help our current issue?
OSA: You can fix it yourself.
BC: But as said we don't even...
OSA: Please submit a bugfix when you are done.
BC:
Big Corporation: have a nice entertaining trip with our lobbyists while you think about our point of view
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Let he who is without copyright infringement cast the first takedown notice.
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This is not the funny you're looking for.
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Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
At no point in your rambling, barely coherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered proper formatting. Everyone in this thread is now angrier for having scrolled through it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.