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The best data for a response, I believe, would come from IFPI Sweden's
response to the Swedish Justice Department about the Swedish
implementation proposal on the Data Retention Directive.<br>
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Highlights:<br>
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...an implementation of this directive constitutes an <font
color="#990000">important foundation and prerequisite</font> for
IFPI's further work in taking action against those who infringe on our
rightsholders' rights on the Internet...<br>
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...IFPI considers it important that <font color="#990000">the
implementation... is done in such a way that copyright holders are
given access to... traffic data</font>...<br>
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...If technical innovation would make it possible to circumvent data
retention or make it impossible, this would potentially cause great
harm to copyright holders. ...<br>
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...It shall be possible for law enforcement <font color="#990000">and
for rightsholders</font> to act judicially against a party that
infringes on rights, even when this happens on the Internet... (<i>remember
now, the context is a data retention directive comment</i>)<br>
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...To fight illegal activity on the Internet, through criminal and
civil sanctions, it is therefore a necessity that some traffic data be
retained. In the case of a too restrictive regulation of data
retention, there is a real risk of a situation where where numerous
illegal acts cannot be mitigated.<br>
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See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.frendo.se/ifpi080320.html">http://www.frendo.se/ifpi080320.html</a>. Google can translate the rest
of the text. My translations are from my printout of the PDF (with lots
of red markings on it).<br>
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Rick<br>
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Reinier Bakels wrote:
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">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?</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">This is
urgent - if true, I will send a reaction to the newspapers.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">reinier</font></div>
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