[DMCA-Activists] EU Ready to Attack E2E File Sharing

[Seth Johnson]

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/17/0725242.shtml


EU Poised to Attack P2P File-Sharers

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 17, @03:04AM

from the all-fronts-engaged dept.

Robin Gross of IP Justice (http://www.ipjustice.org) writes "The EU is about
to vote on a controversial piece of legislation
(http://www.ipjustice.org/code/021404.html) that targets P2P file-sharing
and other non-commercial infringements. The EU Intellectual Property Rights
Directive creates a 'nuclear weapons' of law enforcement tools for
intellectual property holders. It combines the most extreme enforcement
provisions found throughout Europe and imposes them collectively onto all of
Europe, for example England's Anton Pillar orders that permit recording
industry executives to raid and ransack the homes of alleged users of
file-sharing software or it's Mareva injunctions that freeze a defendant's
bank accounts without a hearing. The vote in the EU plenary will likely be
March 11, 2004 - watch the CODE site (http://www.ipjustice.org/code) for
developments." 


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