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European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout
New submitter mcmadman writes "In a bizarre turn of events, the legal affairs committee of the European Parliament, voted to weaken a reform of the copyright monopoly for allowing re-publication and access to orphan works. What is surprising is that the voter turnout happened to be 113%. That there were three votes too many, and that these three votes determined the outcome, was pointed out to the committee. Unfortunately, when this was done, along with formally requesting a re-vote, the re-vote was denied."
Putin's approval rating has plummeted to 112% in favor.
You americans with your puny 99%. This parliament goes to 113!
Meep.
Hold on fellas, you've got it all wrong. Math is different in Europe (they've got their commas and periods all backward in many places), especially when it's attorneys doing the counting. Folks just have to understand this, and fortunately there's a great instructional video available for those in need of further tutelage.
Very true. For a start - we call it Maths
So that's where the vote count went wrong! They were counting plurals where there should be singulars!
The reason is that Diebold was responsible for the count.
I welcome our new 99% overlords.
Plus , we use metric. 1 Metric vote = 1.13 US votes.
You guys have it all wrong. On matters relating to the music and video industries, duplicate votes are worth exactly as many as the originals.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...