Enforcement Directive - Criticism

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The Directive has been widely criticized on the account of its allegedly draconian approach, said by some to mimic the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). So strong was the criticism, in fact, in particular from telecommunications industry and parts of computer industry, that the original draft was substantially changed. A number of problems still remain in the final document, according to the international civil liberties organization IP Justice.

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