IPRED2 draft retracted
Some good news, if only for the moment: The EU Commission has retracted the current draft of the planned IPRED2 directive after the European Court advised that the Commission does not have the competence to decide on measures of penal law merely in co-operation with the Council of Europe
This only brings temporary respite, though. If the planned penal measures against copyright infringement cannot be implemented within IPRED2 itself, the Commission plans to implement these measures through other avenues.
The person reporting to the EU parliament on this topic, Janelly Fourtou, has complained that she feels “technically unemployed” now and reiterated that she wants these measures implemented as soon as possible. This certainly is entirely unrelated to the fact that her husband is on the board of Vivendi Universal.
Isn’t it great that in Europe we are able to keep individual interests out of politics?
heise.de has a report on this (in German).
via netzpolitik.org