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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9714
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/internet

Internet providers and business leaders are joining United Kingdom in fighting illegal file-sharing

Brussels, 30/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 24 July, six of the main internet providers in the United Kingdom, as well as the British music and film industry announced that they intended to fight against free “peer-to-peer” downloading. Virgin, BT, Tiscali, BskB, Carphone Warehouse, Orange and Virgin Media have effectively joined forces with the British Photographic Industry (BPI) and the Music Publishers Association (MPA) to warn internet users who illegally download that their...

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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/LISBON TREATY: a new referendum in Ireland in autumn of 2009? Appointment of new European Commission might be slightly delayed
(EU) EU/SERBIA: EU welcomes Radovan Karadzic's transfer to ICTY in The Hague
(EU) EP/SUDAN: Jo Leinen calls on United Nations to 'not be blackmailed by Omar al-Bashir'
GENERAL NEWS
(EU) EU/WTO/DOHA: Differences over special safeguard mechanism cause Geneva meeting to collapse, but considerable progress has been made
(EU) EU/TECHNOLOGY: Official appointment of Governing Board of European Institute of Innovation and Technology
(EU) EU/INTERNET: Internet providers and business leaders are joining United Kingdom in fighting illegal file-sharing
(EU) EU/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Moving towards creation of IASB
monitoring group
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Sharp fall in Business confidence indicators in EU
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/COMPETITION:
(EU) EU/ECONOMY: New data base on micro-economic reforms in member states available
(EU) EU/REGIONAL POLICY: Publication of operational programmes in four French regions
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/ECONOMY:
(EU) EU/INDUSTRY:
(EU) EP/AFRICA: In European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, Africa will have place of honour at European Parliament, 8-11 September 2008
(EU) EU/COURT OF JUSTICE: Individuals may use European law to call for action plan on pollution
(EU) EU/LEGISLATION: Main legislative acts published in Official
Journal of EU
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