Re: EU decides to keep all connectio ndata for 6 month to 2 years, how to circumvent / elude ?

laura fairhead wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:49:09 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>The European parliament has today ratified the storage of
>>all internet, phone, and fax connection data for 6 month to 2 years.
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>>The data will not only be used to find 'terrorists' but also 'illegal
>>music sharing' and other related stuff.
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> Hi Jan,
>
> Is this actually true? :O Can you give us a link for the documents
> detailing this ?
>
> If it was true and this is a lobbying move of the entertainment cartels
> it's an interesting attack on piracy, however surely completely
> broken - too many people will ignore it for it to be effective....!?

The new law
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4335058.stm
Media companies wanting access.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4469886.stm

In many ways letting the media companies have access is a good idea.
When the scandal breaks the punishment is likely to include banning
corporations from having copyright. Their reproduction privilege is
just being used by the cartel to charge high prices and rip off the
authors and entertainers.

Warn your politician. The media companies are both unpopular and making
silly mistakes. So they must ensure that they do not get caught
accepting "campaign contributions" from these organisations. Standard
rules apply - cash only, in brown bags, wear a disguise and you have 10
witnesses that say you were 1000 kilo meters a way.
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:10:19 2005