I recommend listening to Malcom Harbour MEP and Lilian Edwards (ORG Advisory) on this podcast from the BBC. The result is he is willing to amend the directive make clear that it will not enforce three strikes, etc. It is meant to give users rights.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20080708-1954.mp3
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@fsfe.org wrote:
From: Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@fsfe.org Subject: Re: July 7th EP committee vote to create traffic snooping To: discussion@fsfeurope.org Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 12:27 PM AFAICT, the telecoms package amendments were mostly adopted, which is bad. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7495085.stm
As usual, the coverage of this is blurred by word games about this not being about "enforcement" but being about "users rights", etc.
I haven't watched the post-vote press conference, but if you log in, you should be able to see the video here: http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/download/audio_download_en.cfm?id=125266&... (I can only hope the video is in an open standard format)
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