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Deutsch: EDRi und EuroISPA gegen Forderung der Kommission nach Notice&Take-...

EDRi and the European ISP Association (EuroISPA) have prepared a joint civil society/industry position on the European Commission's draft informal recommendation for the takedown of websites which have been accused of being illegal.

The recommendation's scope is nominally restricted to child abuse websites, terrorism and racism.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Italienisches Urteil hinsichtlich Googles Führungskräfte...

Finally, the Court of Milan made public the opinion that backed the indictment of a couple of Google's executives charged of Italian Data Protection Act infringement for not removing a violent video from the company's video sharing platform, video.google.com.

The article Delete, don’t block published in The Guardian on 30 March 2010 by Joe McNamee, EDRi's Advocacy Coordinator has been translated also in several languages - Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Spanish

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Deutsch: Umstrittener Entwurf zum Rahmenbeschluss gegen die sexuelle Ausbeutung...

The Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament held its first exchange of views on the controversial Proposal for a Framework Decision on combatting the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. The draft legislation includes an obligation to require ISPs to "block" access to child pornography sites and attempts to harmonise the approach of the 27 EU Member States to this issue.

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Deutsch: Britischer ISP gibt direkte Trennungen der Verbindungen von File-Share...

UK ISP Karoo belonging to Hull based KCom telecom company, announced on 24 July it would change its policy and apply a three-strikes system for the customers allegedly infringing copyright.

Within the agreement with the entertainment industries, the UK ISPs have agreed to send out warning letters to users suspected of downloading copyrighted material from the Internet. Karoo, holding the monopoly in Hull as the only ISP in area, has been exceeded this procedure for some time now, having directly disconnected its users for suspected file-sharing.

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Four former and present Google executives, including Senior Vice President David Drummond are waiting for the confirmation of the order issued by an Italian prosecutor to stand trial for a video on a young man with Down syndrome posted on YouTube in November 2006.

The case caused a lot of rumours in public media in 2006 and it was already estimated that the prosecutors action would take a lot of time before presenting the case in front of a judge. The Google executives are to appear in a Milan court on 3 February 2009 facing charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data.

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Dutch government and leading market participants have adopted a new Notice-and-Take-Down Code of Conduct. The Code seeks to clarify the responsibilities of internet intermediaries (hosting providers in particular) when confronted with a notice that online information is punishable (under Dutch penal law) or unlawful. Reactions to the code are mixed. Many hosting providers have not signed the Code. Others have called it symbolic. In fact, the Code seems to obscure the current legal obligations of internet service providers with regard to punishable and unlawful material.

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A Hamburg court in Germany has ruled that the free file-hosting service RapidShare.de is not doing enough to combat piracy, so they should check content for copyright infringement before it is made available on the Internet .

The decision was given in the legal conflict between RapidShare and GEMA, a German copyright collective organisation, that has been going fro some years. RapidShare already has a system in place to check against the uploading of already deleted material.