EU report will not recommend filtering

EFF reported recently that the EU's report on the Cultural Industries in Europe will go out without amendments recommending ISP filtering and copyright extensions. Language that was intended to push ISP-level filtering was introduced by the music industry last year, with an aim to curb copyright infringement. Protecting copyrights with filtering is difficult to do without overblocking. It is also hard to do without making it more difficult to use and share copyrighted material legally.