It was the EU. I think it mostly worked by everyone ignoring it. I do not pretend to understand how the crazy EU shit works, though.
Or the European Parliament? I assume that is EU? I dunno!
The EU primarily consists of a Council, Commission and Parliament. The Commission does the day-to-day stuff, is non-democratic, and hates Parliament. Parliament is democratic, gets to shoot down everything the Commission is trying to push through (such as ACTA). Then there's the European Council, which has no real legislative power, but is more a collection of the heads of states, and does both long-term strategic politics and crisis stuff. The European Council is not to be confused with the Council of the European Union, consisting of the ministers of the states, depending on the subject and their portfolios. And then there's tons of other commissions, regulation organs, think tanks, temporary and semi-permanent committees, etc. and nobody knows what it's all about anymore.
The ruling he refers to (I think) was in order to stop internetproviders from providing caches to illegal downloads. The one I used to work for actually had a caching server to accommodate the popular downloads of the then-popular p2p networks (emule or kazaa or whatever it was back then). That went a bit too far for some people. But then, newsgroups that had been around since day 2, also cache stuff, and those would also become illegal because the binaries they provide can't reliably be filtered for illegal content. I don't know what the status of that whole thing is now, though, that was years back.
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