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Euro-Parliament Trying to Ban Caching?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the attack-of-the-idiots dept.

Luca Lizzeri writes "The Europarliament voted with a two thirds majority to include temporary copies in a sweeping new copyright protection blunder^H^H^H^H^H^H^H act. Go see And MEPs lament the fact they don't have enough power. I for one am not going to advocate giving them more now." This is related to the Euro-Parls trying to deal with copy-right protection on the Internet-the 2/3 majority voted against amendments to the bill that would excluded caching. So, from what I can tell, it will be illegal to cache in Europe. Some people's children, I tell ya. The good side is that this will still have to be presented to the member nations, and UK is already saying they will argue against it. Update: 02/10 04:01 by S : The motivation and the actual result are explained in more detail by the BBC. Ireland and Luxembourg also oppose the strengthening of copyright laws.

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  1. this isn't the way to do it by bluGill · · Score: 2

    I could see making it illegal to cache pages marked no cache. (I know that there are ways to do this to some pages, but I don't know how. This could even add a requirment that the web add a cabibility) But universially? I don't mind my page being cached.

    I'd even except that pages could be marked cacheable, which I belive html doesn't provide, to give permission to have a page cached.

  2. I'm not bloody surprised by jd · · Score: 2

    That the UK is complaining! The British Universities have to pay per packet transferred to the US and can only afford to be on the Internet because of the JANET caches. No caching, no .ac.uk domain. Simple as that.

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  3. Come and get me by SirThomas · · Score: 2

    If I lived in Europe, my opinion would be: "I'm using caching, come and get me!!"

    I would think that finding and prosecuting everyone would be way too expensive to make the law usefull.

  4. Er, the UK? by scrytch · · Score: 2

    I take it the Euro-Parliament isn't part of the EU then? Because last I heard, the UK wasn't part of the EU.

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  5. Well... by Risen+Devil · · Score: 2

    Proof positive that the European Union *CAN* compete with the US of A... just not necessarily in money terms.