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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff 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 face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff 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 face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff 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 face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff size=2>This is urgent - if true, I
will send a reaction to the newspapers.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>reinier</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>