[pp.int.general] urgent: data retention and downloading

[Reinier Bakels]

NL parliament will vote next week about the Dutch law implementing the Data Retention Directive. Government proposes 24 months, the supporters of 6 and 24 months are roughly in balance. Many commentaries in newspapers.

None refers to a link with copyright enforcement. I know Erik Josefsson noticed a long time ago that there is probably a link between IPRED2 (thats makes copyright infringement "severe crimes") and Data Retention, that is about collecting data for the prosecution of "severe crimes" only.

Could we claim convincingly that "Data Retention" only pays lip service to terrorism and (other) criminality, but actually is just another of the many measures covertly proposed by desparate record companies to turn the Internet into a police state for the purpose of winning a war against file sharers - that is already almost lost?

This is urgent - if true, I will send a reaction to the newspapers.

reinier
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