Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for Web Video Uploads 131
An anonymous reader writes with some bad news from Italy, noting that new rules proposed there would "require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web." Understandably, some say such controls represent a conflict of interest for Silvio Berlusconi, "who exercises political control over the state broadcaster RAI in his role as prime minister and is also the owner of Italy's largest private broadcaster, Mediaset."
Re:Italian Booty (Score:3, Funny)
That or the sale of small metallic cathedral replicas will really take off.
Re:That's insane (Score:3, Funny)
This nation is failing in so may ways it's becoming almost impossible to find something that works as it should...
It's depressing.
Are you saying the trains don't run on time?
Digital Mafia? (Score:3, Funny)
He'd better be careful otherwise he could wake up with an ASCII horse's head in his email inbox.
Push the Italians too far and see what happens!
Re:Italian Booty (Score:2, Funny)