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Thursday, February 06, 2003

IP group: EU soft on piracy
A group of European intellectual property holders slammed the European Union for going soft on digital piracy, following the release of a plan for combatting counterfeits. The proposal enables punishment for profitable piracy, but leaves personal, home downloading alone.

The group said that last week's new piracy-fighting proposal from the European Commission is "inadequate in view of the magnitude of the piracy problem and fails to introduce urgently needed measures to hold back the epidemic of counterfeiting." The group claims that in Europe, film, video, music, business and leisure software industries alone suffer losses in excess of EUR4.5 billion annually due to piracy....

However, in other quarters, the new directive has been deemed a much tougher version than the standards already in place to fight the illegal copying of software and other digital materials. For example, the Commission's proposal could see to it that counterfeiters are jailed and their bank accounts frozen, if they are found to be in breach of the law.



For its part, the European Commission claims that the proposed laws will actually fill gaps in national law that pirates currently exploit.

One example of that toughness: a German proposal to levy a piracy tax. (Intel hates it already)



(via BNA.com)
:: posted by Bryan, 12:22 PM |

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