That is wrong. What this law says is that content providers are directly responsible for what users publish or upload. The reason to this decree is that one year ago Mediaset (Berlusconi's TV group) sued youtube for publishing a lot of copyrighted material and asked for 0.5 Billions ( see <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/italian_tv_company_mediaset_su.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/italian_tv_company_medi...</a> or google "mediaset yotube").<p>If this new bill will pass (and it will) then youtube will be deemed responsible for copyright infringement. This has nothing to do with users asking for authorization.