PC World bericht: "A crowdsourced Finnish draft law that aims to reduce penalties on small-scale private downloading from peer-to-peer networks reached enough backers to be discussed by the parliament. The necessary threshold of 50,000 backers to send the bill to parliament was reached Monday, said Heini Huotarinen, senior officer of the Finnish Ministry of Justice. At midday Tuesday local time, the number stood at 52,895.
The initiative called the Common Sense in Copyright Act is a crowdsourced set of improvements to the current copyright legislation, said Joonas Pekkanen of Open Ministry, an organization that helps nonprofits and individuals make proposals for laws and designs campaigns around them."
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