Drew Wilson
March 29th, 2009, 11:50 PM
The French government is said to be ‘fighting like a lion' to kill the controversial Amendment 138 for user safeguards in the Telecoms Package. It is taking its fight to heart of the Council of Ministers, where the British government is also pushing its position for an Internet where access and use is conditional on the operator's terms.
Amendment 138 is the controversial amendment which seeks to protect users rights in respect of 3-strikes sanctions, and would make it difficult for France to legally bring in its Hadopi law. It has effectively stopped the EU from bringing in a 3-strikes policy, which had been on the cards for a separate ‘Creative Content Online' initiative.
There is also a strange perversion of the other user safeguard amendment - known as amendment 166 (article 32a) in the Universal Services directive - that has appeared in one of the latest documents.
The UK government's ‘wikipedia amendments' have been tabled by several MEPs in the Universal
Services directive (Harbour report). They are so-called because one of them has been created out of text cut and pasted straight out of the wikipedia, as reported previously on iptegrity.com. This is a serious matter, because it indicates a lack of knowledge on the part of those writing the amendments, as well as questions that need to be asked of those who knowlingly tabled the amendments.
More... (http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=284&Itemid=9)
Additional reading from Squaring the Net (http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Telecoms_Package_2nd_Reading_ITRE_IMCO_Draft_Amend ments#Amendment_85_--_2) on the second reading.
Amendment 138 is the controversial amendment which seeks to protect users rights in respect of 3-strikes sanctions, and would make it difficult for France to legally bring in its Hadopi law. It has effectively stopped the EU from bringing in a 3-strikes policy, which had been on the cards for a separate ‘Creative Content Online' initiative.
There is also a strange perversion of the other user safeguard amendment - known as amendment 166 (article 32a) in the Universal Services directive - that has appeared in one of the latest documents.
The UK government's ‘wikipedia amendments' have been tabled by several MEPs in the Universal
Services directive (Harbour report). They are so-called because one of them has been created out of text cut and pasted straight out of the wikipedia, as reported previously on iptegrity.com. This is a serious matter, because it indicates a lack of knowledge on the part of those writing the amendments, as well as questions that need to be asked of those who knowlingly tabled the amendments.
More... (http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=284&Itemid=9)
Additional reading from Squaring the Net (http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Telecoms_Package_2nd_Reading_ITRE_IMCO_Draft_Amend ments#Amendment_85_--_2) on the second reading.