Showing posts with label three strikes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label three strikes. Show all posts
23 November 2013

Does The 'Three Strikes' Approach Work, In Any Sense? Here's The Evidence

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Last week we reported on the suspension of Hadopi's one and only suspension, as France moved away from using Internet disconnectio...

French Farce: Hadopi's First And Only Suspension Has Been Suspended

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Back in June we wrote about Hadopi's first and only successful disconnection case. As we also noted then, in the wake of its abject...

Likely Winner Of Australia's Imminent General Election Sneaks In Last-Minute Plan To Impose UK-Style Opt-Out Censorship -- Then Denies It

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Australia goes to the polls this weekend, and the likely winner quietly added Net censorship to its platform , as spotted by ZDNet:  On...
19 September 2013

Warning Letters Under UK's Three Strikes Plan Unlikely To Be Sent Out Before 2016 -- If Ever

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Techdirt readers may recall that over three years ago, the UK's Digital Economy Act was passed in totally disgraceful circumstances...
31 March 2013

South Korea Considers Dumping Draconian Copyright Law Forced On It By The US

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As Mike noted a couple of days ago, international trade agreements often have the effect of constraining the power of national legislat...
17 March 2013

French Politicians Worry That Free Creative Commons Works Devalue 'Legal' Offers

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As Techdirt noted last year, France has a regrettable habit of dreaming up really bad ideas when it comes to the Internet, most famously...
10 March 2013

Early Lessons From New Zealand's 'Three Strikes' Punishments

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New Zealand has the unhappy distinction of being in the vanguard of using the "three strikes" approach of punishment for people...
10 February 2013

France, Cradle Of 'Three Strikes' Punishment, Explores Another Bad Idea: Killing Net Neutrality

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Not content with giving the world the "three strikes" approach to copyright enforcement, France has recently shown signs of wan...

Study Shows Educational And Social Harm 'Three Strikes' Punishment Would Cause Young People

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One of the extraordinary aspects of the "three strikes" approach to copyright enforcement is its blind vindictiveness. After t...
08 December 2012

Early-Morning Raid Sent To Confiscate 9-Year-Old's Winnie The Pooh Laptop For Downloading Music

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One of the biggest problems with the current approach to dealing with alleged copyright infringement is the totally disproportionate natu...

Three Strikes Is Out? UK Judges Rule Internet Ban Is 'Unreasonable', Even For Sex Offenders

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Last week, Techdirt wrote about a US teenager being banned from using the Internet until his 21st birthday as punishment for his involv...
29 July 2012

NZ Copyright Industry Claims New 'Three Strikes' Law Halved Movie Infringements After One Month: So What?

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The implicit justification for various new copyright enforcement laws, such as the "three strikes" approach, is that they will e...
23 June 2012

Double Standards: EU Commissioner De Gucht Is 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty'; EU Citizens Are 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent'

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The Belgian EU Commissioner Karel De Gucht is the driving force behind ACTA, and is apparently really keen to combat crimes like counterf...
22 February 2012

Australian Government Holds Secret Anti-Piracy Meetings; The Public Is Not Invited

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As Techdirt noted recently, policy-making behind closed doors is no longer acceptable. Until the end of the 20th century, it was hard f...
08 February 2012

We Don't Have A 'Wild West' Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed

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Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, has the sad distinction of being in the vanguard when it comes to really bad ideas concerning th...
02 February 2012

iPhone Data Debunks Recording Industry's Report On How French Three Strikes Law Increased Sales

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The annual Digital Music Report ( pdf ) of the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is a curiously conflicted pr...
25 January 2012

Blocking The Net 'Not The European Option' -- EU Commissioner Reding

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One of the useful side-effects of the groundswell of protest against SOPA and PIPA is that a surprising number of people in positions of ...
05 January 2012

German Court Decisions Make Everyday Use Of The Internet Increasingly Risky There

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Perhaps there's something about the German legal system that encourages judges to push their interpretation of the law to the limit, w...
21 December 2011

Three Strikes Approach Rejected By Irish Data Protection Commissioner, Gov't Seeks Censorship Plan Instead

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The contentious nature of the "three strikes" response to unauthorized sharing of copyright materials can be seen by the legal b...
13 December 2011

EU's Advisor On Supporting Net Activists Previously Forced From German Government...By Net Activists

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The Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe, Neelie Kroes, recently made quite a stir when...