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Euro Parliament Warns Against Overzealous IP Enforcement 73

Posted by timothy on Friday March 27, 2009 @03:04AM from the death-to-whistlers-of-beatles-tunes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Days after New Zealand dropped its support for the 'three strikes and you're out' approach for terminating Internet subscribers, the European Parliament has now similarly rejected the proposed approach. Today the EP adopted a new report on security and fundamental freedoms on the Internet that expressly rejects disproportionate measures for IP enforcement and the use of excessive access restrictions placed by IP rights holders."

Comment Re:Organic life should be more common (Score 1) 267

by duckacuda on Monday February 16, 2009 @01:00PM (#26873833) Attached to: Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life

While there may be more carbon in the universe than silicon, here on Earth silicon is far more abundant than carbon. (27.69% of the Earth's crust is silicon, only 0.094% is carbon, according to this )

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