i agree! and i will forward this to her office (i am seeing them next week
as well - so will bring it up face to face as well...)
v
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:58 PM, jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
> >
> 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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