[Ramen]

Edit: Proposed EU telecom amendments lack three-strikes provision[arstechnica.com]
Europe votes on anti-piracy laws[news.bbc.co.uk]

A sad day for Europe. Sarkozy failed in France and now this is at the EU level. Nice tidbits:

Among the amendments are calls to enact a Europe-wide "three strikes" law. This would see users banned from the web if they fail to heed three warnings that they are suspected of putting copyrighted works on file-sharing networks.

(emphasis mine)
Naturally, this task would fall to the ISPs or seme "impartial" private third party.

In addition it bestows powers on governments to decide which programs can be "lawfully" used on the internet.

"Many of these are acting quite legitimately and in order to determine whether or not such large files are or are not the produce of illicit file sharing the ISP will have to carry out an unprecedented degree of analysis of its customers' traffic."

At least it shows I'm not paranoid