It looks like a combination of HADOPI and ACTA is coming soon to EU. If you have not heard about them don’t be surprised. There is no social consultation in that matter in any country, all information regarding who and how is planning to change our online life is secret. Soon everyone will look for a VPN internet access.
Acording to the French PCINpact some classified negotiations are being held with the support of European Commission between Internet Service Providers and copyright owners. It is possible that much stricter rules of internet usage will be introduced for all EU countries with omission of all democracy rules. Companies like IFPI, ETNO, EuroIspa, Vivendi, Virgin Media, BT, Ofcom and also Amazon, Google and Yahoo! are part of this action.
Apparently copyrights holders wish for monitoring and filtering of internet traffic. All web sites that will be marked to hold illegal material (or the ones that are a middle man) should be cut of (if they are in EU) or access to those sites will be denied.
Another plan is to closely watch every internet user, just in case illegal actions are perfomed. It is like in everyday life there would be a policeman following our every step and watching our every move – just in case we would do something illegal.
Once new law is introduced a lot of people in EU would receive letters with warning (or bill) like French internet users because of their HADOPI initiative.
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