Blimundus - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:this cloud has a silver lining though (Score 2, Insightful) 153

by Blimundus on Friday January 04 2008, @07:19AM (#21907716) Attached to: EU Encouraging Standardized DRM, Licensing

"The EU is pretty fragmentary and local law trumps EU law when it comes to the citizens of your own country. This creates all kinds of loopholes." That's completely false. EU law (if correctly adopted, and with sufficient legal basis in the treaties) prevails over local law. Also, some EU laws (the regulations, as opposed to the directives), don't even have to be implemented into local law to have direct effect.

EU to set up authority to cut web access-> 0

Submitted by Blimundus on Thursday December 13 2007, @07:49AM

Blimundus writes "The European Commission is considering a new set of measures that could cut web access for users of illegal file-sharing software, according to a draft policy paper on "Creative content online". Illegal file sharing could cost you your access to the web. The paper does 'concede' that 'right holders and consumers' should be involved. Do you think that the European Commission has thought about the possibility of a consumer holding rights himself?"
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