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Sanity prevails in the EU

The European Commission has rejected a request from the French president that commission head Barroso work to overturn the European Parliament's decision banning the cutting of internet access to websurfers who illegally download copyrighted films or music.

President Nicolas Sarkozy last week wrote to the EU executive asking Mr Barroso's "personal commitment" to rejecting an amendment buried within the parliament's vote on a telecoms bill approved by a large majority of lawmakers on 24 September.

The amendment expressly forbade maneuvers such as the cut-off of internet service as a way of addressing piracy - something currently being considered by the French government. The European bill following the vote includes language declaring: "No restriction may be imposed on the fundamental rights and freedoms of end-users without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities."

Full story here: EUobserver

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sanity prevails!

[GHERDEZ]

The initiative by the DRM supporters to make ISPs responsible for regulating web traffic is not MONEY-MAKING for the latter. But quite the opposite, because police work and regulation enforcement requires a considerable amount of resources that the DRM supporters don't contribute with. Maybe if ISPs were shown BIG MONEY they would change their minds. Because, forcing the ISPs to adopt the responsability to police web traffic through government regulation, will be met with heavy resistance.

Vive la France!... Vive la Résistance!...

GHERDEZ