Italy’s Communications Authority (Agcom) Wednesday pressed ahead with a clampdown on Internet piracy despite a massive mobilization by opponents who say the measure constitutes a threat to freedom, but last-minute modifications were greeted by critics as a partial victory for civil society.The Authority approved a ruling giving itself the power to order the removal from websites of material that violates copyright, but reserved the right to block access from Italy to foreign sites guilty of the same infringement for the courts. Previously, both measures required the intervention of an independent court.As a concession to critics who organized a series of public initiatives culminating in a “Net Night” of protests on Tuesday, the Authority extended the period allowed for alleged copyright violators to respond to the accusation from five days to 15 and left open the possibility of an appeal to the courts against the Agcom’s orders.Two of Agcom’s nine board members reportedly withheld support for the ruling, one abstaining and another voting against, and official confirmation from the body’s website was unavailable for hours, as Agcom appeared to be the victim of a denial-of-service attack following police action Tuesday against suspected members of the Italian branch of the Anonymous hacker… Read full this story
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