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EU IP enforcement directive advancesEU IP enforcement directive advancesPosted Feb 26, 2004 14:38 UTC (Thu) by j_heald (guest, #15398)In reply to: EU IP enforcement directive advances by hingo Parent article: EU IP enforcement directive advances FFII is very much focussed on how the directive might be (mis)used against software developers. But the heart of the directive is to put very strong weapons into the hands of claimed rights-holders. That's why it got the nickname "DMCA on steroids". The possible raids we were talking about against software developers could equally well be directed at individual file-sharers; and it has even been suggested that controversial groups such as eg the Church of Scientology could use the measures to seize systems and documents, and sub-poena the names of opponents, if they were to claim that they were redistributing unauthorised copyright material or claimed confidential information. For technical legal reasons, this sort of Directive can't be used to introduce new criminal measures, only measures to be used in civil (non-criminal) disputes. But some of the measures being introduced are very powerful, and completely unknown up until now in most of Europe; which is another reason why we think it is very important to limit them for legal predictability to only the most serious cases, at least to start with.
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