EU passes ?Three Strikes? law on Internet copyright infringers
Published on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Europe?s major governing institutions have passed France?s controversial ?Three Strikes? law among a raft of other reforms to telecommunications, albeit in a slightly watered down form. France?s proposed
HADOPI laws would?ve been the most Draconian in the world, sanctioning the disconnection of Internet accounts by an administrative body that applies a graduated response to piracy with a ?three strikes? rule. Basically, if you?ve been notified three times of being caught downloading pirated material, your connection could be summarily cut.
The European parliament challenged the HADOPI law with an alternative of its own ? one that presumes innocence rather than guilt, guarantees a fair hearing and puts decision-making in the hands of a judge rather than an administrative body. The graduated ?Three Strikes? approach, however, remains, and the decision to cut a connection can still be made by a non-judicial body, but a right to judicial review is guaranteed on appeal.
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