Folks we need to be on high alert, the scummy filth that is the content Cartel are trying a backdoor method of breaching privacy laws within the EU.
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2005/11/23/music-industry-tries-to-hijack-serious-crime-legislation-in-europe/The newly-formed Creative and Media Business Alliance (CMBA), made up of companies such as Sony BMG, Disney, EMI, IFPI, MPA and Universal Music International, this week expressed an interest in communications traffic data so that they can more easily prosecute “intellectual property infringements”.
Thanks to a combination of two fast-tracked EU directives, they may just get their wish: and allow a UK plan to limit civil liberties to turn into a privacy-invading free-for-all by the entertainment lobby.
Data Retention to Fight Piracy?
This week, the CMBA emailed all MEPs (Word doc), calling for the data retention legislation currently under discussion in Europe to be widened far beyond its original scope.
The CMBA want data retention legislation to be an “effective instrument in the fight against piracy”, and believes that “the conditions set out in the proposal are too restrictive and would create obstacles to law enforcement in a number of situations. Moreover, many amendments submitted, including to the Industry Committee, seek to further reduce the scope of the Commission proposal.”
These amendments are some of the few that try to rein in already bad legislation which may well violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
For these companies, however, industry interests trump democracy, human rights and civil liberties.
Remember folks to make your voice heard and write to your European parlimentary representative, good ideas to prevent terrorism should not be abused by greedy business interests, all these companies should be ashamed of themselves putting legislation in danger of rejection by piggybacking petty greed onto it.
