Watchdog mauls Euro database of 'pirates'

So destroy on suspicion then?

"In May, the Commission announced plans to enable IP rights-holders and others to apply for customs action to seize and destroy goods suspected of being fake or unlicensed." I just can't help wondering, what happens if they destroy a bazzilion dollars worth of stuff, and find out afterwards that their suspicion of it being fake or unlicensed were not true? You can't destroy stuff on suspicion, that's like the US executing someone on suspicion (ok so maybe not the best example). You could sieze it on suspicion to check out its bona fides, then destroy it if its fake etc, or release it if you are wrong. A bit late if you have destroyed it already.

legal slander (or is it libel?)

So they don't have enough evidence to prove the allegation in a criminal court so instead they will spread rumours that you are probably a criminal.

Un-fucking believable!

Utterly dreadful people

There's a really, really unhealthy slice of humanity that seems to delight in collating data on the "wrongdoings" of others for no obviously better reason than they seem to get off on it. They lurk in the corners throughout human history, emerging from under their rock when some regime exists that seem to value their particularly nasty worldview. Doesn't matter what the politics are; communist, capitalist, social democrat, tyranny, democracy or even bloody hippy commune, there's always some fucker who wants a list of "transgressors".

Be nice to turn the tables and compile a list of people who get their jollies making finger pointing lists and visit a bit of what usually ensues from compiling such lists on them, very publicly and somewhat more unpleasantly than the Golgafrincham solution - telephone sanitisers I can live with. There's enough of the bastards it would probably make for a good global event - perhaps a replacement for the Olympics; more interesting, useful and doubtless cheaper to run, since I reckon finding volunteers would be easy, and the world would be made a better place at a stroke.

What is wrong with these fuckers FFS?

is it me or are comments broken?

If this one eventually shows up, I'll have to keep trying.

On the article, it appears that the EU don't know how to implement systems that comply with their own laws.

Comments

Yup, I saw no comments earlier, despite there apparently being some available. Just a blank. And, yes, sounds like it's the EU just being nosey for the sake of it. This sounds very dangerous and great hacker fodder, as we all know what happens to databases these days. Who watches the watchers?