simo simo.sorce@xsec.it wrote: [...]
Before you start believing everything he says, I recommend you give a look here: http://eupat.ffii.org/gasnu/mharbour/index.en.html
Malcom Harbour is a very well known politician from the time of Software Patents battle in the EU parliament. He was on the 'right' side that time too according to his words. He was "only closing loopholes in the current law so as to avoid US-style broad patentability" and fighting "misguided lobbyists in the European Parliament" (FFII).
I'm in email discussion with Neil Parish MEP (EPP/Conservative, South-West England and Gibraltar) about this, challenging pretty much every loophole that has been left in. For example, why is it only prohibited to require technical features in law? Why not all features? That seems to leave the way open for the soviet-internet internet-software-by-approval regimes.
I'm also questioning why the Conservatives(EPP) are supporting Labour(PSE) amendments that require ISPs to punish both "unlawful and harmful" (why not just unlawful? harmful to whom?) acts.
Seems like the only people doing the right thing are UKIP(NI) and that's for the wrong reasons. I hear even Greens are voting for these ways of including copyright-kickings into the telecom law, but I don't have any Green MEP so I've not checked that closely.
Bloody stealth laws! http://www.stealth.strangecompany.org/
Regards,