As far as Europeans are concerned, they have it enacted in the laws that says everyone have a right to be heard in a court of law before they can be deem to be convicted of any crime, and that they are entitled to a fair and public hearing. Not only that, they must be given a reasonable time to be heard by an impartial body dully sanctioned by the state.
According to news going around the blocks, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that is being championed by the US and gaining momentum with many nations agreeing on changing their copy right laws in support of copyright holders, specifically music and video producers, is being challenged by law groups who said it contravenes basic human rights if it were to be adopted.
With the adoption of ACTA, service providers will be given the onus to cut off the lines of customers who are suspected to have illegally downloaded copy righted files from the internet. This power if enacted will however clash with the basic human right law enacted by many states earlier. If the American First Amendment Law were to be taken at face value, then ACTA will surely be deemed as illegal and unenforceable in the US Courts.
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