But that’s not too bad an outcome, because it seems to have taken most of the « three strikes » nonsense with it, as this full explanation makes clear:
Looking at the final versions of the five amended EU Directives that form the Telecoms Package, it seems that yes, Amendment 138 (which made sanctions against ‘unlawful content’ subject to due process of law) has indeed disappeared. But so have some elements of another part of the Package that said that national telecoms regulators should regulate lawful and unlawful content. What was particularly worrying about those provisions was that they referred to another part of the Package that mandated co-operation between national regulators and telecoms industry providers – i.e. ISPs and the big telecoms carriers.
Of course, it ain’t over until it’s over….
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/11/amendment-138-goes-poof.html