hi Victoria,
thanks for the informations and liaison to a kindly concerned MEP,
still my doubts remain, feel free to forward this reply to Arlene's
attention:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +0100, victoria sinclair wrote:
> Despite claims to the contrary made by some lobbying organisations,
> this Directive contains no provisions on the enforcement of
> intellectual property rights online. The report encourages
> regulatory authorities to promote appropriate cooperation to ensure
> lawful online activity. This does not seek to promote or prescribe
> any enforcement regime, which would be beyond the appropriate scope
> of the Directive. Claims therefore that it amounts to the
> introduction of a form of "graduated response" are totally false.
When it is said that "the report encourages regulatory authorities to
promote appropriate cooperation to ensure lawful online activity" does
this cooperation includes the provision of citizen's data collected by
private companies?
i find quite worrying the ambiguity and marginality of this point.
encouraging private companies to collect citizens data, as a measure
of "cooperative law enforcement", definitely exposes civil society to
disasters as the recent TELECOM scandal in Italy or Vodafone scandal
in Greece.
for an extensive analysis of the aforementioned facts please refer to
this publication by Austrian journalist Erich Moechel:
http://www.quintessenz.at/harkank/Tod_an_der_Ueberwachungsschnittstelle_Vortrag/2007_09_09_Das_Metanetz.pdf
furthermore, i'm not sure what it is meant by the expression
"introduction of a form of graduated response", but i'm confident that
statements done by the civil rights association FFII are not to be
underestimated as "totally false", given the deep technical knowledge
and experience of its members on these matters.
kind regards
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