Lähdekoodi sivulle Joint Finnish-German-Swedish debate article for EUObserver

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==Teksti==

The recently passed French bill allowing a special government branch
without connection to the rest of judicial system cancel the access to the
internet for users is without like in threat to civil liberties online.
When will the legislators stop and ask themselves how much of society can
be lost to protect copyright holders? Ung Pirat, Piraattinuoret and Junge
Piraten ask themselves.

The struggle between net users and copyright holders has turned into a
battle seemingly without end. Legislators have went to great trouble to
enforce copyright in the digital environment, while net users all over the
world have claimed that copying, sharing and remixing of existing cultural
goods is something good and positive that should not be stopped.

The unfortunate conflict has its basis in the possibilities granted by new
technology. Through a net connection, any person anywhere on the globe can
easily obtain and spread information to all other users. Via forums such as
YouTube, torrents or fanfiction.net
 
users all over the world have spread,
remixed and shared thousands upon thousands of terrabytes of movies, music
and literary works. In the process they have greatly added to the cultural
wealth of our world.

For one reason or the other, the owners of intellectual property rights
have perceived this as something negative. They have purposefully and
willfully urged legislators to put a stop to creativity and activities
inherent to our nature.

No society as yet has ever progressed without copying. We need to preserve
copying as a phenomenon if our society is to keep advancing. Copying is the
way we learn a language, it's the way we memorise a song. It's the way we
learn to recite a passage from a loved book, or the way we tell a friend
about a movie we once saw.

The recently passed French bill tries to put a stop to that. And in the
process, it stops not only a healthy part of citizens' creativity. It stops
their access to communication, fruitful online services and an invaluable
source of news, information and knowledge.

It is most distressing that this is a  realisation that has yet to reach
the corridors of power.

In a recent conflict between the European Parliament and the Council of
Ministers regarding the Telecoms package, the Parliament clearly indicated
that they wished to preserve some kind of right for citizens' not to have
their network connections arbitrarily removed by non-judicial branches. The
Parliament, more prone than other institutions of the EU to listen to the
voice of reason of the citizens, realised that maybe it wasn't such a good
idea to cut citizens' access to communication, online services and
information without limits without at least having a court order. The
Council of Ministers, set on ridding themselves of such a petty right,
refused flat out. Now those amendments of the Telecoms package are up for
the Conciliation procedure this autumn.

We represent some twenty thousand European youth, and we urge the ministers
of Europe and the Commission to protect the rights of citizens to not have
their internet access by any other than a court order. As a society, we can
only go so far to try and preserve copyright in the digital environment.
And this is quite too far.

==Muuta (linkkejä)==

* http://euobserver.com/
* https://blog.piraattipuolue.fi/2009/05/ranskan-uusi-laki-200-000-yhteytta-kiinni-vuodessa/
* https://www.piraattipuolue.fi/keskustelupalsta?func=view&catid=536&id=4380


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