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q/depesche  99.2.14/1

EU: Musikindustrie will Proxy-Server illegalisieren

So gehts halt, wenn eine ältere Industrie, die um ihre Lizenz 
zum Geld/drucken fürchtet, weitaus erfolgreicheres Lobbying 
betreibt, als die junge Branche der ISPs. Von einer breiten 
Front an Ahnungs/armut getragen, votierte das EU-Parlament 
in erster Lesung für einen Zusatz im geplanten 
Copyright/gesetz, der Proxy-Server & Caching illegalisieren 
würde.

post/scrypt: Wer sagen kann, warum die dümmsten IT-
Gesetzvor/schläge seit 95 auffällig oft von Sozialdemokraten 
kommen, tue dieses bitte kund.
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Sean Hargrave 
....
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) claim that taken in its most 
literal sense the directive would render most Net activity 
illegal. They claim that not only would it be against the law to 
download a web page without first asking its author, it would 
also be illegal for an ISP to "cache" content. 

The record industry, which was one of the leading 
campaigners for the amendment, vigorously rejects the ISPs' 
interpretation of the new clause. 
....
Originally the directive made provision for caching as long as 
it did not harm the rights of copyright holders and was 
"integral and essential" for the functioning of the Net. 

An amendment successfully put forward last Wednesday by 
Roberto Barzanti, an Italian socialist MEP, tightened the 
proposed law. It added a need for copyright holders to give 
their permission for all digital copies of their work.
...
Janet Henderson, rights and public policy manager at BT 
Internet and a council member of the Internet Service 
Providers Association (ISPA), is astonished by the vote. 

"It's absolutely unbelievable. They have passed an 
amendment that would effectively outlaw the Net," she says. 
....

Graham Watson, liberal MEP for Somerset & North Devon, 
opposed the Barzanti amendment. He believes the wording of 
the final directive will be changed to clarify the issue when it 
receives its second reading later this year. 
....
"If the ISPA takes a lesson from this it should be that if you 
don't lobby well and get a technical message over in plain 
language, then people will not understand you. 

"We had to sit through about 250 amendments and I think a 
lot of MEPs found the whole process too complicated." 
....
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