Politics: FFII reports that the ‘IPR Enforcement Directive’, the law proposed to deal with ‘IPR infringement’ by the wife of the CEO of Vivendi Universal, has just been approved by the EU Council.
Another glorious moment of digital cluelessness by the Irish presidency. But then, it had already been passed by the parliament. Reminder: that page lists the Irish MEPs and how they voted on a key amendment, which would have inserted safeguards so that ‘surprise raids … in the middle of the night by private security firms, on the flimsiest evidence’ would not be possible.
It’s now done in Europe. Next step is to deal with it when the member state governments implement it (which has to happen by June 2006).