ACT NOW !!

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* The European internet is being threatened seriously!
* The telecoms-package is a set of monstrous laws regulating the internet.
* Amandment 138 is securing a fundamental rights.
* If amandment 138 is excluded, internet will be turned into a cable-television system.

* This is a campaign organized to raise awareness of the telecoms package in Sweden. For all of Europe, please see blackouteurope.eu.


Save the internet - talk to your MEPs now!

* You have got until tuesday 21 April - 20h00 to call all Members from the ITRE committe of the European Parliament to ask them to vote for amendement 138 (renumbered 46) and reject any form of weakened compromise. Click here for a complete list of phone numbers and e-mail to the members of ITRE

* For more information, please visit La Quadrature du Net's campaign

http://thepiratebay.org/

http://telekompaketet.se/

Two days to call all Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) seating in ITRE committee to ask them to vote again for amendment 138 (now am. 46)

Keep in mind that MEP are in Strasbourg today ! (most of them arrived in the afternoon, so if you could not reach them in the morning, try again!)


On Tuesday, April 21st at 20:00, the ITRE report of the Telecoms Package, rapported by Catherine Trautmann, will come to a vote in the ITRE (Industry, TRansport, Energy) committee.

It may reintroduce amendment 138 (now renumbered amendment 46), a crucial safeguard of user's rights on the Internet, and protection against the media industry private police and retribution called the "graduated response" or "three strikes" schemes. Am. 138 was approved by 88% of the European Parliament in first reading, on September 24th, 2008.

Yet rapporteur Catherine Trautmann is currently negotiating with the Council of the EU, which under the French presidency, and under very strong influence from M Sarkozy, deleted the amendment in first reading.

The Council may propose a compromise version of amendment 138/46 that is completely neutralized, or that may even become the opposite of the original by allowing the "three strikes" scheme instead of preventing it. According to the latest negotiations, am.138/46 wouldn't anymore be an article (that must be transposed by Member States in their law) but a mere recital that has just indicative value.

It is urgent to contact the members of the ITRE committee to advise them to reject compromise with the Council that failed to respect the intent of the original amendment. The best would be once again to approve the amendment.

Time is short, so we must act promptly.

http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Mob...lecoms_Package