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"...and by randomly, I mean without a legal process. You may remember that the European Parliament (most notably, French socialist Guy Bono) has asked individual countries of the European Union to \u201Cavoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights \u2026 such as the interruption of Internet access.\" This was a reaction to the proposal of a three-strikes law, under which the ISPs could send two warnings to file sharers and completely ban them from the Internet on third \"offense.\"\nNow, the European Parliament has made it official, adopting an amendment, drafted by Guy Bono and others, which says that \"No restriction may be imposed on the rights and freedoms of end-users, notably in accordance with Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on freedom of expression and information, without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities, except where dictated by force majeure or by the requirements of preserving network integrity and security, and subject to national provisions of criminal law imposed for reasons of public policy, public security or public morality.\"\nIn other words, you cannot ban someone from the Internet unless you have a damn good reason - and file sharing is not a good enough reason. \nWhat's important about this amendment is that now the European Parliament is not just giving out directives against the three-strikes law (the stupidity of which we've written about before) - they're actively forbidding any action to that effect, and hopefully the member states of the EU will comply."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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