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==Teksti==
The recently passed French bill allowing a special branch of government to disconnect alleged filesharers' internet-access without a court order is an unprecedented threat to civil rights 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 or restricted.
It is most distressing that this is a realization 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 the largest source of 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.
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