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Deutsch: Netzsperren – Wichtige Vorentscheidung fällt am 3. Februar 2011

The legislative process on Internet blocking is about to move from almost standstill to almost completed between now and the beginning of February.

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Deutsch: Ist YouTube in der Türkei wieder online?

After almost three years of blocking, Turkey has finally lifted its ban on YouTube.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Irisches Gericht lehnt Antrag der Musikindustrie auf Three...

On 11 October 2010, Mr. Justice Peter Charleton of the Irish High Court gave judgment in EMI and Others v. UPC , rejecting music industry claims that broadband provider UPC was responsible under Irish law for policing their users and preventing copyright infringement by them.

In this case, EMI, Sony, Universal, Warner and WEA sought an injunction which would require UPC to introduce a three strikes system and to block users' access to The Pirate Bay. This followed the music industry's success in an earlier case against Eircom (Ireland's largest ISP).

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Deutsch: Mitmachen!

I call on Commissioner Malmström to withdraw on her initiative of website blocking. Instead of employing the same techniques as China and other totalitarian regimes, I call on the European Commission to improve law enforcement cooperation both inside the European Union and with outside partners, to ensure swift deletion of child porn websites as well as an effective and determined prosecution of the perpetrators.
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Deutsch: Hearing zu Netzsperren im Europäischen Parlament

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee held a hearing on the Child Exploitation Directive on 28 and 29 September, chaired by the Parliament's Rapporteur, Roberta Angelilli (EPP, Italy).

The event was opened by the MEP responsible for the dossier, Ms Angelilli herself and the Rapporteurs from the two Committees providing an "Opinion" on the dossier - Culture (Petra Kammerevert, S+D, Germany) and Gender Equality (Marina Yannakoudakis, ECR, UK).