Wednesday, January 27, 2010
By creating legal uncertainty for the Internet operators, ACTA will force them to bend under the pressure of entertainment industries. ACTA will compell Internet service providers to filter and remove content and services, turning them into private police and justice auxiliaries. We cannot tolerate that restrictions to fundamental rights and freedoms be imposed by private actors. Such a modification of criminal law by governments themselves, in total opacity, shows how much the people behind ACTA hate democracy.

Jérémie Zimmermann

spokesperson for the citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net

Sunday, November 15, 2009 Thursday, November 5, 2009 Saturday, October 31, 2009

The Net and the European Union

I found this article really interesting and I though I’d translate it to english (it is originally written in spanish). The article is from Enrique Dans and published at Expansión on the 29th of October 2009. Enrique Dans is a known spanish blogger and Expansión is a also an important spanish economic journal.

This is, of course, my own free translation of the article, and neither I or my small site has any relation with the author or the journal where it was published.

The article:

This is not what they sold to us. The European Union, at the Net level, is a bad joke: we have a continent that does not work in the Net and a European Parliament determined to make it work even less.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Piracy is what people carrying guns on the high seas do: capturing ships, stealing cargo and turning crews and passengers into hostages, sometimes murdering them. Piracy does not describe what people do when they post digital music on file-sharing networks.

Dan Gillmor

(via El Blog de Enrique Dans : Mediactive)