Human Rights Protect Internet Piracy

Posted Monday 14th April 2008 by Catherine in Uncategorized.

In another strange development from the realms of ‘human rights’ laws comes the news that European politicians have rejected a recommendation to cut off internet users who persistently break the law by way of piracy.

Fortunately, the EU recommendations are just that and hold no force over individual governments and the measures they wish to take. France has been seen to be taking strong actions against criminals of this type with the news that they are making net firms become anti-piracy watchdogs.

The hope is that when net users are seen to be persistently sharing files, powers will be in force to cut off their internet connection but MEP’s say that this infringes on the human rights of those users. What about the human rights of those who supply the files in the first place? Do they not have a natural human right to not have their work stolen?

It has been seen in many areas of Europe that the law seems to do more to protect the law breakers than those who are trying to do legitimate business and this is another of those ridiculous examples. Maybe common sense will take over and the individual country governments will implement stricter measures to stop the piracy that spoils it for everyone else.

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