Right to internet' dies quietly in Brussels back room
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Early Thursday morning the European Parliament and EU member states finally reached a deal over a long-delayed telecoms package when MEPs dropped their opposition to French-style internet �three-strikes' laws aimed at illegal internet downloaders, ending for now the Brussels debate on a fundamental...
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- News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month agoEU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding announced the compromise deal, reached late Thursday, after European governments agreed to EU parliament demands to balance a crackdown on illegal downloaders with broader rights for Internet users. Following a...
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- Blog Source: www.digitalworldz.co.ukThe fate of the European Telecoms Reform Package and what kind of action member countries can take against illegal downloaders is likely to be decided in Brussels this evening as the European Union's conciliation procedure draws to a close. Five EU
- Blog Source: www.intelligencecentre.netThe new proposals, several times delayed and finally agreed on after intense debate, are a halfway house between the centralization of telecoms regulation in Brussels and independence for national telecoms regulators. ... In May the EU telecoms-
- Blog Source: christianengstrom.wordpress.comI think it's too bad that there was not enough support for a pirate party in the Bundestag elections, because the fight for Internet users rights cannot take place in Brussels only. It needs to take place in Berlin, ... Pingback av New EU Legislation
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