Piracy and copyright
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Editorial: Europeans weave their Web
17 February 2012613Presseurop -
Interview: “Web is foundation of young people’s lives”
25 January 20122241 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Internet: Online access is now a human right
6 November 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Internet: Bug in Sweden's anti-piracy law
24 September 2009PresseuropLibération -
Digitisation: Google books revolution hard to put down
9 September 20092 El País Madrid -
Illegal downloading: Releasing the pirate within
22 July 200911 Dilema Veche Bucharest
As the Polish government prepares to sign the anti-piracy ACTA treaty, thousands of young internet users have taken to the streets in protest. Like most of their fellow Europeans, they fear it may “label their existential choices and free expression of identity as piracy,” explains internet anthropologist Piotr Cichocki. 
For some time now Google has been digitising vast numbers of books. This controversial initiative, assailed by publishers, booksellers and some EU national governments alike, has led the European Commission to call for up-to-date copyright legislation that will prove equal to the challenges of the digital age. 
The sale of Pirate Bay, the largest file-sharing site in the world, and the will of certain governments - France's notably - to penalise illegal downloading, has re-opened the debate on copyright. As Romanian weekly Dilema Veche observes, all surfers are potential web delinquents.