[Fsfe-ie] Prison Over Patents? EU Law Unites Foes

[teresahackett at eircom.net]

Nope, it's another one. IPRED2 is the criminalisation of IP 
infringements. The directive referred to in the FFII wiki page concerns 
data retention. This was passed yesterday by the European Parliament and 
involves the mass retention of data from telephone, email, sms, etc. for 
varying lengths of time (Poland wants 15 years!).

More here: 
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-496240&als[theme]=Data%20Retention

Teresa

Seth Johnson wrote:
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> Is this the same directive as that referred to here:
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>>http://wiki.ffii.org/DataRetPr051214En
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> Seth
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> Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
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>>teresahackett at eircom.net writes:
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>>>Sent to [Upd-discuss] by Seth Johnson. It is referring to IPRED2.
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>>(IPRED2 is of course dead, but some kind of replacement is coming in early
>>2006, but it will probably be a general criminalisation Directive rather
>>than being specific to patents and/or copyright.)
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>>>BRUSSELS For once, declared adversaries are on the same side of
>>>an argument in the technology industry
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>>That's interesting.  At the EP hearing I went to the music distributors and
>>the brand-name pharma industry were saying IPRED2 didn't go far enough.
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>>For one thing, they wanted "sampling" to be included (ISPs required to give
>>*all* data to a music-industry group, the group analyses the data, picks the
>>50 "worst offenders", and sues them).
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>>...maybe they've changed their minds.
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