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Italy Prepares '"One Strike" Anti-Piracy Law
angry tapir writes "The Italian government is preparing an anti-piracy law that could ban Internet users from access after one alleged copyright infringement, a lawyer and an analyst warned. ISPs would be required to use filters against services that infringe copyright, trademark or patents under terms of the draft law. The proposed changes to Italy's e-commerce directive were drafted in July by members of parliament belonging to the Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL) party of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi."
So anything that gets by this amazing filter isnt considered piracy? Sweet.
The Italian government is acting as the protector of corporate profits. What a white knight they are! Can there be a "One Strike" bad politician law so that after their first major fuck-up they get to go to federal PMIA prison for a minimum of 1 year? What's good for the goose is good for the gander!
'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
Now I know many countries have proposed or implemented a 3 strike law (much like my own - NZ) mostly to cosy up to the US.
How cosy does Italy want to be?
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But that's not the point of this bill.
It's the industry proposing something just short of decapitation, versus the current situation that non-profit file sharing is explicitly legal.
Somewhere in the middle is "compromise" where everyone loses except the rent-seeking gatekeepers of culture.
"See, it wasn't as bad as what we wanted"
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BMO
If this passes, every single MP that votes for this will suddenly find hundreds of copyright complaints against them...
It's ironic that the very openness of Internet that made it so popular itself is being challenged. This type of Draconian law has the potential to snowball into a much bigger piece of sh*t where content provider and producers can twist the law to gain all sort of mileage. It also doesn't behoove well for the sophisticated search engines. Heck..providing anything other than a link to the actual content might become illegal altogether. The case of Belgian newspapers going after Google news is not going to be one of case.
So Youtube will be blocked in Italy?
Frankly this is just dumb. The internet is full of all kinds of copyright infringement. Even the giant corporations like AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc are all benefiting from the free exchange, linking, and displaying of other people's media/content without any contract.
Just go to huffingtonpost and see how many articles they link to, that they didnt write. Go to Youtube, and view all of the videos that violate copyright,
The entire internet is based on sharing content.
They have this technology called a dial-up BBS the Italians might be interested in. I see a market for the development of high-speed dial-up modems and a resurrection for land-line telephones.
Il Duce reborn.
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Cisco violated the GPL with Linksys.
Lets see Italy ban Cisco from using the internet.
What, the law only applies to individuals violating for personal use, its ok for companies to violating copyright for financial reasons. I get it now,
MAFIAA is strong in Italy
I wholeheartedly support this "One Strike" law. As the first barrage in the torrent (heh!) of complaints, let me fire this one off:
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-steals-code-violates-linkware-license/
I demand 100% complete disconnection of the MPAA, including subsidaries, partent companies, any company where any member of the MPAA (or subsidaries, parent companies, etc) is a shareholder in whole or in part, from ALL Italian users. They cannot connect to ANY Italian IP address, on pain of defying a court order (or whatever the punishment is for evading the 'one strike' law).
Any "evidence" gathered against Italian internet users is null and void because in order to gather that evidence they had broken the "one strike" rule in Italy. And, of course, the MPAA would never download something they didn't actually own the rights to, therefore committing copyright infringement themselves, right? Never? ...
Oh wait, the laws don't apply to those who make them? The MPAA is allowed to commit the worst kind of copyright infringement -- claiming you created something you didn't, and then using it for commercial purposes and making a bunch of money with it -- and that doesn't count as a strike? Because they are immune to their own law?
Oh damn.
Well, it was a nice thought anyway.
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or, much more likely they inherited opportunities that aren't afforded to others. Once you have an advantage (ie money for the rich), then its prudent to keep on using your advantage to leverage yourself some more advantage... (ie, it's a lot easier to make money when you already have some).
if they use that money to affect politics in ways that the majority are against, then the working class are already at a disadvantage as they can't afford to compete in the same domain.
It has nothing to do with intelligence.
And both have a leader you can't spell right as a foreigner and who is batshit insane. Essentially, Italy is Iran without oil but more corruption.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You overestimate the smarts of the Italians and underestimate the amount of power Don Silvio wields over the media. Imagine Fox News (and affiliates) with a market share of about 95%. And now try to wrest the power from the Reps.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They are on trial for stating that it was SAFE despite numerious warnings. The claim is that because people where told it was safe, they returned to their houses to sleep inside and died. Those that didn't listen to the scientists saying it was safe stayed outside for the night and were safe.
The scientist in question could have said, "We don't know, there are a lot of shocks, they might be the lead in fora big one, they might not". Then people would have chosen the safe options and slept outside and not have died.
The real case is in finding out WHY the lead scientist was so willing to say it was SAFE, which is MAKING A PREDICTION, when you claim no prediction can be made.
This case is NOT about scientist being unable to make a prediction, the case is why they made a prediction they now claim they couldn't make.
And if you look more into the case, the scientists might have had other motives then the welfare of the people when they made the claim it was SAFE.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
The profound incompetence is a given in politics.
There, fixed it for you.