Paris, April 2nd 2009 – The Council of EU is trying to reintroduce a distorted version of amendment 138 to “Telecoms Package”http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Telecoms_Package_Framework_Article_8_4_ga_Parliament_First_Reading.. It could be interpreted by the archaic industries promoting “graduated response” as authorizing…
Behind closed doors, positions are being negotiated on the Telecoms Package among the rapporteur, the European Commission, and the Council of the EU. If those “trialogues” get to a compromise, it will simply be put…
Paris, 26 March 2009 – The European Parliament, endorsing the Lambrinidis reporthttp://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A6-2009-0103+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN and turning its back on all the amendments supported by the French government and defended by Jacques Toubon and Jean-Marie Cavada, has just…
Paris, March 26th – The European Parliament may be about to surrender absolute power over the Internet to the telecom operators. Under the false pretext that the existing rules governing market and competition would solve…
Here are the letters (PDF attached below) La Quadrature du Net sent to members of IMCO and ITRE committees about the crucial votes on Telecoms Package second reading, on March 31st.
Letter to IMCO members
Protect EU…
Paris, Mar. 23rd 2009 – Harmful amendments to Telecoms Package 2nd reading may be voted on March 31st in IMCO and ITRE committees. They all have in common to give extra powers to established industries…
La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net), a French internet civil liberties pressure group backed by the Open Society Institute and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has successfully organised a ‘Black-out’ protest, in which web designers,…
Le ministère de la Culture adresse “quotidiennement” à chaque parlementaire une lettre électronique pour expliquer le projet de loi antipiratage sur internet, dénonce Patrick Bloche.
“Voir le ministère appeler à la rescousse les artistes de notre…
L’UFC-Que choisir renouvelle, quant à elle, son opposition au projet de loi “Création et Internet”, examiné mercredi par les députés, qu’il juge “répressif” et “obsolète”.
L’examen du projet de loi “Création et Internet” débute mardi à l’Assemblée. Mais avant même qu’il soit débattu, le texte est fustigé par la moitié de la classe politique et plusieurs organismes publics. L’opposition mais…