Showing posts with label law hadopi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law hadopi. Show all posts
10 March 2013

HADOPI May Be Succeeding -- In Driving French Customers To Dotcom's Mega

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Last week, Techdirt reported on the news that falling numbers of P2P users are being trumpeted as a victory for HADOPI's "three ...
06 January 2013

French Hadopi Scheme Gutted; Other Bad Ideas To Be Introduced Instead

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France's Hadopi graduated response approach, also known as "three strikes", occupies a special place in the annals of copyr...
29 September 2012

First HADOPI Victim Convicted, Not For His Own Infringement, But Because His Wife Downloaded Songs

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Well, here's a nice contrast: just when a judge in the US has ruled that users there have no obligation to lock down their wifi conn...
12 May 2012

What Does The Election Of France's New President Mean For European Copyright?

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Whatever you might have thought of his policies, Nicolas Sarkozy probably had more impact on European copyright policy than any other EU ...
23 March 2012

Should There Be A Right To Copyright Exceptions?

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Last month I wrote about how the Netherlands is looking to introduce new flexibilities into its copyright laws, based on some interesting ...
25 February 2012

One More Copyright Infringement, And HADOPI Must Disconnect Itself From The Net

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The governmental body that oversees France's "three-strikes" law, HADOPI, has already been caught once infringing on the co...
08 February 2012

We Don't Have A 'Wild West' Internet Now, But We Will If SOPA Or Similar Is Passed

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Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, has the sad distinction of being in the vanguard when it comes to really bad ideas concerning th...
02 February 2012

iPhone Data Debunks Recording Industry's Report On How French Three Strikes Law Increased Sales

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The annual Digital Music Report ( pdf ) of the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is a curiously conflicted pr...
12 December 2011

HADOPI Wants To Research File Downloads: Shouldn't It Have Done That First?

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One of the most important aspects of the UK's Hargreaves Report was that it called for copyright policy to be based on evidence. It a...
16 November 2011

Help Fight Against Extrajudicial Suppression of UK Domain Names

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With so many bad things happening in the digital world at the moment- ACTA, TPP, Digital Economy Act, HADOPI, La Ley Sinde etc. - there ...
27 October 2011

Leading French Presidential Candidate Would Repeal HADOPI But Keep Net Surveillance

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As a recent Techdirt post noted, France's HADOPI "three strikes" policy has effectively criminalized vast swathes of that c...
22 July 2011

Why Are Hackers Becoming So Angry?

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You may have noticed a bit of a trend recently. Groups of hackers are getting hold of stuff that has hitherto been kept locked up, and makin...
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10 June 2009

Has HADOPI Had It?

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Well, not quite, but this judgment that its sanctions are unconstitutional certainly punches its teeth out: Le Conseil constitutionnel a ce...
11 May 2009

Has HADOPI Driven the French Insane?

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One of the things I have been unable to understand is why the French, well known for their love of liberté, égalité, fraternité and all tha...
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09 April 2009

French "Three Strikes" Law Unexpectedly Thrown Out

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In an incredible turn of events, the French HADOPI legislation, which seemed certain to become law, has been thrown out: French lawmakers ha...
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03 April 2009

HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4

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What a travesty of democracy: Alors que le vote n'était pas prévu avant la semaine prochaine, les quelques députés présents à l'hém...
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03 November 2008

Whatever Happened to La Liberté?

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What on earth have the French got against the Internet? First the "three strikes and you're out", and now this : The Soviet In...
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