EU Proposing to Make P2P Piracy A Criminal Offense 420
brajesh writes "The European Commission is pushing for a proposal (.pdf) to crack down on organized piracy, which could also make indirect copyright infringement a crime across Europe, with implications similar to the recent MGM v. Grokster U.S. Supreme Court ruling. If the directive is adopted, developers who create software for file sharing that is then used for illegal ends could potentially be criminally liable in EU member countries." From the article: "The problem here is some activities, such as the creation of software, can be used for legal and illegal purposes, as is the case with Grokster...It gets really messy, because it is unclear what is legal or not legal, and it is problematic to operate with such abstract terms."
'ere now, what's all this? (Score:5, Funny)
How nostalgic for Europe.
Beer! The other p2p (Score:3, Funny)
Old adage (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lots of tools can be used to pirate (Score:3, Funny)
Argh! (Score:2, Funny)
Unhappy as a parrot without a shoulder, I turned me PC back around to head back to port 80, for me horn-swagglin' days of maurauding the wide open network seas were thru - for there be no one left to steal from these days!
Re:Just end it all, please... (Score:4, Funny)
Not Floppy's! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But I thought Europe was all about freedom? (Score:3, Funny)
Time Machine (Score:2, Funny)
Him so called "Printing Press" could produce hundreds and thousand copies of one book just for one week.
Pirates have used it in enormous proportions to execute undreamed copyright violations.
This had caused a big loss in book sells and SCWAA estimates them at 1 000 000 in gold.
This evil invention had taken the work and bread of more than 10 000 script copy writers, letting them and their families live in misery.