Earlier this year, it was reported that both the UK and France were planning a “3 Strikes” plan that would ban alleged file sharers from the Internet after three warnings.
Although the legislation has still not gone to a vote, there has been word that a few UK ISPs are voluntarily working with the record industry to come to arrangements that could possibly include a 3 strikes rule. Of course it is important to note that this 3 Strikes rule will not give extra money t the artists, which is the record industry’s reasoning for such a move.
The main backer of the legislation, French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been putting more weight behind the bill as of late and the subject has been controversial in the UK as well as across the ocean here in the US.
Making the situation even more controversial now is the fact that La Quadrature du Net, a French pressure group, has seen that a 3 strikes amendment has been silently added to the European telecoms law currently in the European Parliament. The bill for the most part is dealing with network infrastructure, universal service and other telecom issues. “One week before a key vote in the reform of European law on electronic communications (”Telecom Package”), La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) denounces a series of amendments aimed at closing the open architecture of the Internet for more control and surveillance of users..
…this set of amendments creates the unprecedented mechanism known as graduated response in European law; judicial authority and law courts are vacated in favour of private actors and “technical measures” of surveillance and filtering. According to rules set forth by administrative authorities and rights holders, intermediaries will be forced to cooperate in monitoring and filtering their subscribers, or they will be exposed to administrative sanctions”, reads an LQN statement.
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Hong Kong customs official Michael Kwan has confirmed that his office has arrested a 14-year old boy for allegedly uploading over 2000 Cantonese language pop songs to a website and making them available for free download.
Kwan, who is the divisional commander of the Copyright Investigation Division, added that the child was picked up after he advertised free music downloads on an Internet discussion forum.
The boy has not been officially charged and is free on 2,000 Hong Kong dollars ($373 USD) bail while the investigation continues. Kwan noted this is the third time a teenager has been arrested for uploading music and making it available for free.
All counts of copyright infringement in the nation carry a maximum of four years in prison and a HK$50,000 ($9335 USD) fine.
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An Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ruled against the Dutch web host LeaseWeb , meaning the host will have to divulge the personal information of torrent tracker Everlasting.nl to the anti-piracy agent BREIN.
Late last year BREIN began its attacks on LeaseWeb, claiming that it was the host to many large torrent sites. It won an injunction on a few of the sites including Everlasting.nl and the courts ordered that the personal information be released to the authorities. BREIN was happy with the decision, but LeaseWeb vowed to fight and the appeal has dragged on for months.
“Leaseweb is to file an appeal against the preliminary injunction relating to the ‘Everlasting’ bit torrent site hosted by Leaseweb. This means that the court of appeal in Amsterdam will hear the full case against the Brein foundation again,” LeaseWeb originally said.
LeaseWeb first made headlines when BREIN got the huge torrent tracker Demonoid shut down. The tracker however has since moved to servers in other countries and seems to be back up and running.
“In a recent case at the Amsterdam District Court, LeaseWeb was ordered to take down such sites. Although LeaseWeb has filed an appeal and will keep fighting for its client’s rights up to the highest court, LeaseWeb regrettably has no choice but to obey the court order and take down sites that list (bittorrent/edonkey) files,” read the original statement from the web host as well.
