A European law that would effectively give entertainment and other industrial cartels the power to create their own internal cop units to go after copyright infringers is being opposed by the Dutch parliament.
The EU commission, “plans to obligate member states to prosecute any intentional violation of intellectual property if the violation was committed for commercial purposes,” says Heise Online.
But Holland says it doesn’t want to see intellectual property infringements turned into criminal matters.
Nor would copyright infringements be the only things affected. Patents, trademarks, utility models would also fall under the Semiconductor Protection Act, which would be enforceable, “by penal law”.
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Sounds like the start of those creepy corporate control movies that always talk about the world being out of your hands and companies tell you what you can and cant do. Well I can tell you if that ever happened il be fighting till the bitter end to stop it.
Thats I wahy I firmly belive 1984 wont come in the form of Govt control as we are failry on alert for that sort of thing but rather in the form of corporate control where corporatiosn slowly emesh themselves in increaing aspects of our lives where every keystroke and shred of data is analyzed and stored in perpetuity
If they would let corporations have that much power they would use it against competition.