French Report – Legal Punishment for Filesharing as Severe as Manslaughter
One of the criticisms of copyright laws has, for some time, been that the punishment is far too severe for the crime being committed. This debate is nothing new ...
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Load Gearing Up for Massive 8GB Multinational Data Dump
The hacking community has taken notice to another hacker who claims to have internal documents on several governments from around the world including the US, Russia and several European countries. ...
School Teacher Could Take HADOPI to Court Over False Accusations
He is a 54 year old school teacher. He is also one of the first number of people to receive multiple notices from HADOPI for copyright infringement. He ...
OSCE – Three Strikes Laws Incompatible with International Obligations to Free Speech
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization has issued a report that explicitly states that a three strikes ...
NZ – AFACT Demanding That ISPs Should Pay for Enforcing Three Strikes Law
New Zealand is one of the countries that have the oppressive three strikes law. It hasn't taken effect yet, but AFACT, a local copyright lobby, is demanding that ISPs ...
Major French Political Party Wants to Repeal HADOPI
Martine Aubry, the secretary of the Socialist Party, has recently announced her intentions to repeal HADOPI ("law promoting the distribution and protection of creative works on the internet") - the ...
UN Report: 3-Strikes is a “Violation of Human Rights”
Frank La Rue, the UN's Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, submits report concluding that disconnecting Internet users, "regardless of the justification provided," is a violation of the ...
Anti-P2P Group Hacked, France Suspends “Three-Strikes”
Hackers breach Trident Media Guard's servers and leak IP addresses accused of illegal downloading. Govt suspends ties with the firm while it investigates the breach, but as the sole anti-P2P ...
French “Three-Strikes” Survey: Less Than 3.5% Have Quit P2P?
HADOPI survey says that 7% of 1500 surveyed Internet users reported they or someone close to them had received a notification letter, and of that 50% have stopped entirely, but ...
French Pres Reaffirms Commitment to “Three-Strikes”
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the defense of copyright protections is a "categorical imperative," and he hopes that the actions of the High Authority for the Protection ...
French Govt: Illegal Downloading is Like “Stealing from a Shop”
Magistrate with Hadopi, the govt organization tasked with overseeing the country's controversial "three-strikes" legislation, says that "stealing a copyrighted movie or music file isn't legally different from stealing a book ...
French “3-Strikes” to Disconnect Users of Illegal Streaming Sites?
Jacques Toubon, member of the board of the High Authority for the dissemination of works and protection of rights on the Internet (Hadopi), says ...
IFPI: 31% Decline in Global Music Sales
Says sharp decline in physical sales hasn't been offset by meager rise in digital sales, and says there is "growing worldwide momentum" for govt's to get involved to stop P2P. ...
French “3-Strikes”: Only 4% Quit P2P After 1st Warning
Survey finds that nearly 75% of file-sharers still illegally download copyrighted material, more than half saying they will be "more vigilant then before," and the remainder taking no new precautions ...
French Minister Uses Non-Existent Benefits to Sell LOPPSI 2 Legislation
LOPPSI 2, the surveillance legislation in France, has been making headlines recently given that the legislation has re-entered political debate in recent weeks. The Interior Minister reportedly was out ...
HADOPI Blamed for ISP Rate Hikes in France
The goal of The High Authority for the Protection of works on the Internet (HADOPI) is to stop piracy, but French internet users are learning that the only thing HADOPI ...
HADOPI: “Three-Strikes” Not on “Autopilot”
Responds to complaints by copyright holders that it's warning far fewer suspected file-sharers than promised. Commission for Protection of the Rights of Internet Piracy says it's not a "speed camera" ...
French “Three-Strikes” Only Warns 100,000 in 2 Months?
Requirement for judicial oversight has severely limited the number of warning letters HADOPI has been able to send out. Only 3 judges are tasked with verifying more than 50,000 ...
Wikileaks: MPAA, RIAA and BSA Lobbied for HADOPI
Wikileaks has been releasing plenty of new details on how the US views the world. Amongst the interesting tidbits of information buried inside Cablegate was what role the MPAA, ...
French “Three-Strikes” Warnings Far Below Music Industry Hopes
This past October France's “Creation and Internet” law formally went into effect and it seems that it has yet to warn as many suspected file-sharers as the music industry had ...
