[pp.int.general] Old woman ****ed by copyright lobby - Can we do something?

[Maxime Rouquet]

On 12/29/2011 05:01 PM, Daniel Riaño wrote:
> If Germany is now a country where the in dubio pro reo principle went
> down the toilet in IP-related cases, we must expect the same thing
> happening around in many more countries in Europe, so it is our
> collective duty to take action against such cases!

I do not know about each and every country, but the principle of making
someone guilty for not having prevented any use of his Internet Protocol
address is the core of the HADOPI "three strike" mechanism.

When Richard Stallman talked here about a change of the Lisbon Treaty,
he was probably warned about it because of the Article 17 paragraph 2 of
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. This paragraph
in the article named "Right to property" states that :
> "Intellectual property shall be protected".
(See <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/default_en.htm>.)

This is crazy to have come to the point that the EU adopted such a vague
sentence, that could mean that somebody's rights on anything patented or
copyrighted would be fundamental rights and treated at equality with the
rights to life, to liberty, or to private life.