[p2p-research] Fwd: Blackout Europe: Telecoms Package dangers to open EU internet lähetti sinulle viestin Facebookissa.....

[marc fawzi]

Why is France taking the lead on the anti-freedom front?

How can it even be possible that France out of all countries is the one
leading the charge against P2P and freedom on/of the Internet?


On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Andy Robinson <ldxar1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frightening but easily beaten.
>
> This is Sarkozy's little mutant brainchild, looks like the EU has rejected
> it yet again, this is about the fourth time it's been dragged up in EU
> circles and it's been soundly defeated every time.
>
>
> http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2009/03/30/EU-Rejects--3-Strikes--Rule-for-Illegal-File-Sharers/p1
>
> If it ever were implemented, all file-sharers would have to do is switch to
> encrypted file-sharing to get around it.
> e.g.:
> http://www.filetopia.com/
> http://www.zultrax.com/p2p/features/encryption.htm
> no doubt there are dozens of others out there already.
>
> More worrying perhaps, given that this one is a non-starter, is the
> proposal for EU-wide blocking of suspect sites.
>
> http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/04/02/eu-proposal-could-force-uk-isps-to-block-child-abuse-sites.html
> This is already operated by some governments and by most ISP's in a lot of
> the EU (including Britain, Finland, Denmark), and the system is so
> unaccountable that it leads necessarily to abuse.  While it is only meant to
> filter out illegal porn, it's been subject to mission creep pretty much
> everywhere, both official and unofficial.
>
> Official:  "terror linked" sites and "hate" material are among the supposed
> targets to which it's quickly extended.  Peer-to-peer is another obvious
> target.  PirateBay has been added to the blacklist some places, Denmark and
> Italy for example.  They also tend to quickly add sites which expose and
> criticise the lists.  For instance, parts of Wikileaks are blocked in
> Australia.  Future targets are likely to include dissident political sites,
> hacking information, etc.
>
> There have previously been proposals for EU-wide blocking of sites which
> "advocate violence", such as our colleague Chris Knight.
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article610812.ece
>
> Unofficial:  cracked sites with dodgy temporary redirects (such as happened
> to ZMag), or large hosting venues with problems on one page, are taken down
> by mistake, will not know they are on the list as it's secret and hence have
> no actionable right to appeal.  In Britain, the scale of web censorship was
> recently revealed when the Internet Watch Foundation, an unaccountable
> private body which oversees blocking for 95% of IP's, ended up effectively
> blocking editorial access to Wikipedia over an album cover on one page.  In
> Finland, the global IP assigner was briefly blocked.  In Australia, the list
> of banned links (precedent to their great firewall) was shown to include a
> US anti-abortion campaign site, several local businesses whose sites had
> been briefly hacked, pages on Wikipedia, Lolcats, etc.  There was even talk
> of prosecuting the people who published the list!
>
> These kinds of firewalls are technically easy to circumvent for people with
> computer knowledge (using proxies, private networks etc), so their main
> effect will be stifling free speech and visibility of dissent, making it
> hard for example for a random interested citizen to find out what anarchists
> think.  China and Iran have been doing it for ages, but their net users are
> very savvy and their censorship too obvious to go unnoticed.
>
> bw
> Andy
>
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