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Deutsch: Europäische Domainnamen unter Druck

On 26 November 2012, 132 or 133 domain names were seized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (ICE) in collaboration with the Europol and national law enforcement authorities.

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Deutsch: Bringt uns die Datenschutz-Verordnung unabsichtlich "Three Strike...

The European Commission proposed a new framework for protection of personal data in the EU earlier this year. While it has been the subject of probably more lobbying than any other piece of legislation in this history of modern politics anywhere in the world, there has not been a similar upsurge in interest from citizens' groups across Europe.

While EDRi has been working hard on the Regulation and Directive proposed by the Commission, the texts are long, complex and difficult to understand.

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Deutsch: „The Pirate Bay“ bleibt in Finnland weiterhin gesperrt

The Pirate Bay (TPB) remains blocked in Finland as the Finnish Supreme Court has rejected ISP Elisa’s request to hear its appeal in the case filed by the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC) in May 2011.

In the respective case, in October 2011, the Helsinki District Court ordered Elisa to block the domain names and IP-addresses of TPB, thus forcing the ISP to censor the torrent site, under the threat of 100 000 Euro/day fines for non-compliance.

In documents seen by EDRi, the current Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union made a proposal at the beginning of October to delete the criminal sanctions section of the proposed EU/Canada Free Trade Agreement.

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Deutsch: Portugal: Filesharing für private Zwecke verstößt nicht gegen das G...

The Portuguese prosecutors division DIAP (Department of Investigations and Criminal Acts) have recently ruled against ACAPOR (the Association of Audiovisual Commerce of Cultural Works and Entertainment of Portugal) in a case the latter initiated in 2011 against approx.

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Deutsch: Erstes Opfer des Three-Strikes-Gesetzes in Frankreich

After almost two years since the 3-strikes law has entered into force in France, the first Internet user was sentenced by the court to a 150 euro fine for negligence for not using the Internet access security measures and because the user has innocently confessed it.

Since October 2010, about 3 million French IP addresses have been identified by rightholders of being possible infringers.

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Deutsch: Niederlande gegen ACTA in jeder Form

In response to an open letter sent by EDRi-member Bits of Freedom (BoF), the Dutch government has confirmed that it opposes any controversial ACTA-provisions in whatever form.

This confirmation was provoked by the news, only six days after ACTA was rejected by the European Parliament, that a draft text of the Canada – EU Trade Agreement contained provisions that were virtually identical to provisions from ACTA.

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Deutsch: Leistungsschutzwahn in Deutschland und Frankreich

On 29 August 2012, the German government decided to pass a draft legislative proposal for ancillary copyright (so-called "Leistungsschutzrecht") aimed at “protecting” publishing houses' online content from being quoted in news aggregation sites and on search engines.

This draft law would give publishers the right to limit or forbid any publication or reproduction by third parties of snippets of their content.