Showing posts with label hadopi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hadopi. Show all posts
16 June 2026

Spain’s Net blocks have a flimsy legal basis, and lack both oversight and accountability

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It is the usual one-sided justice that is typical when copyright is involved. It seems that LaLiga is being given carte blanche to do whatev...
18 May 2026

Hadopi, perhaps the world’s worst copyright law, is moribund but not quite dead (yet)

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Hadopi is not quite dead yet: the French government could try to solve the two problems pointed out by the CJEU and confirmed by the Conseil...
23 November 2013

Does The 'Three Strikes' Approach Work, In Any Sense? Here's The Evidence

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Last week we reported on the suspension of Hadopi's one and only suspension, as France moved away from using Internet disconnectio...

French Farce: Hadopi's First And Only Suspension Has Been Suspended

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Back in June we wrote about Hadopi's first and only successful disconnection case. As we also noted then, in the wake of its abject...
19 September 2013

First French File-Sharer Sentenced To Disconnection Under Hadopi; But Judgment May Be Unenforceable

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As we've noted before, Hadopi has been a colossal failure on just about every metric, and now seems on the way out. But French ta...
20 July 2013

McAfee Patents System To 'Detect And Prevent Illegal Consumption Of Content On The Internet'

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As a post on the French site Numerama reminds us ( original in French ), the department responsible for implementing the three-strikes p...
17 March 2013

France Considers Operating System-Level Filtering

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Long-time readers will remember the appalling way in which the UK' s Digital Economy Act was brought in - with no research, no debate...
10 March 2013

Early Lessons From New Zealand's 'Three Strikes' Punishments

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New Zealand has the unhappy distinction of being in the vanguard of using the "three strikes" approach of punishment for people...