European Parliament May Ban The Pirate Bay
European Parliament May Ban The Pirate Bay
Posted 02/03/2009 at 6:22am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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The fate of the Medina report, which propounds several anti-piracy measures, will be soon decided by the European Parliament. MEPs (Member of European Parliament) are supposed to vote on the report authored by Spanish socialist Manuel Medina Ortega in the next few weeks. The regulations proposed by Ortega are a shade hackneyed.
The report has torrent websites and their users in its crosshairs. It seeks to ban all torrent websites like The Pirate Bay – specifically mentioned in the report, as they “allow downloading of protected works or services without the necessary authorization are illegal.” However, the presumption that the illegality of such torrent portals follows from their illegal use is not entirely incontrovertible.
Ortega not only proposes to saddle ISPs with more responsibility, he wants them to be able to be more powerful than before. He suggests that ISPs be allowed to disconnect transgressors.
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ShinRenNu
February 03, 2009 at 9:33pm
They are just using this form of role just to escape and cover their real problem in their own sectors. Gonna request for funds, blah ~ blah and get the headlines they wanted to, to bolster their campaign for their next term.
ghot
February 03, 2009 at 11:08am
......Europes Civil War will look like on CNN :)
Take efficiency, and edit out all the intelligence and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)
nekollx
February 03, 2009 at 11:51am
Cival War?
Ha!
were talking Geeks vs Beurocrats
It will be Minority Report on a grand scale the 'crats wont beable to pee by themselves by the end of the day.
GFC
February 03, 2009 at 10:57am
Living in Europe here, and ain't afraid of anything like that. If they shoot down (pun intended) pirate bay today - someone will spawn two of them tomorrow.
You just can't win a war against geeks, thats impossible. Well.. unless you're a Darth wader or somthin..
nekollx
February 03, 2009 at 9:44am
right cause EVERYBODY KNOWS that torrent is just geek for "illeagel"
:rolls eyes:
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