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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Warum „Olivennes Gesetz“ in Italien nicht funktioniere...

"Olivennes Bill" (named after the French lobbyist who proposed it, also known as Hadopi law or 3 strikes law) on copyright protection has been blocked by the French Parliament a couple of days ago (but there is little doubt that French Government will try to have it approved ASAP).

article updated on the score of vote on 28.04

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Deutsch: 3 Treffer-Gesetz von französichen Abgeordneten abgelehnt

On 9 April 2009, the French Parliament voted against the so called Hadopi law introducing the graduate response, against the recommendation of the Joint Mixed Commission (CMP - Commission Mixte Paritaire). The law had been voted by the National Assembly on 2 April, supported by CMP on 7 April and further on voted by the Senate.

In an unexpected move, the present deputies, however, decided to reject the draft law, taking advantage of the low number of deputies left in the assembly.

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Deutsch: ITRE-Komitee des Europäischen Parlaments stimmt gegen die 3 Treffer

The ITRE - Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament (EP) has voted in the evening of 21 April 2009 on the Trautmann report and has reintroduced amendment 138.

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Deutsch: Französische Nationalversammlung stimmt für das 3 Treffer-Gesetz

An almost empty National Assembly voted on 2 April 2009 in favour of the extremely controversial law introducing the graduate response system in France, in spite of the fierce opposition from privacy campaigners, individuals, associations and even some French deputies.

The poor attendance of the Assembly at the vote is considered by some as one of the reasons for the success of the draft law so strongly pushed by the French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel.

The approved text has undergone some modifications during the discussion in the assembly.

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Deutsch: EP hat die Rechte der Nutzer im Telekompaket zu schützen

The new developments on the Telecom Package over the last two weeks, with the approval of a new text in the IMCO (Internal Market Committee) of the European Parliament (EP) and the initiation of the trialogue between EU Council, the European Commission and the Parliament in order to reach an agreement on the final text, shows the worst situation for Internet users.

Although much of the MEPs seem happy with the new text that allows "simplifying life for telecom users", they seem to forget that other articles are raising much bigger problems for Internet users, especially related to the 3 strikes proposal or to privac

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Deutsch: Koalition von Musikern gegen die Kriminalisierung von Downloadern

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Macedonian: [Коалиција на музичари против лицата...