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Sarkozy Says He Will “Go All The Way” With 3 Strikes
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| Yesterday from the Palace of Versailles, Nicolas Sarkozy became the first
| president to address Parliament in 150 years. He took the opportunity to show
| his determination over the proposed HADOPI legislation, promising that he
| will “go all the way” to enforce law on the Internet.
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| Sarkozy’s address yesterday was made possible by the annulment of a law
| prohibiting a sitting president from addressing lawmakers. The last time an
| address of this type occurred was 1848, in Napoleon’s day.
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http://torrentfreak.com/sarkozy-says-he-will-go-all-the-way-with-3-strikes-090623/
Three Strikes Rejected In Spain
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| It seems like the recording industry's grand plan to get ISPs to be their
| copyright police isn't getting very far. Consumer and legal backlash around
| the world seems to have stopped it cold. The latest is in Spain, where the
| entire concept of a three strikes regime has been taken off the table.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090623/1918135337.shtml
Norway Decides Privacy Is More Important Than Protecting The Entertainment
Industry's Business Model
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| It appears that Norway has decided that it's sick of passing laws designed to
| prop up obsolete industry business models at the expense of individual
| privacy. First, the country started telling ISPs to delete log files after
| just three weeks (making it pretty hard to identify individual filesharers),
| and now it's refused to renew the license given to the one law firm allowed
| to sniff IP addresses in trying to seek out unauthorized file sharing.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090623/1924305338.shtml
Record biz tries suing Irish ISPs into submission
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| The major labels want to see Irish ISPs adopt a "three strikes" policy toward
| repeat online copyright infringers, and they've decided that suing the ISPs
| is a good way to make it happen.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/record-biz-tries-suing-irish-isps-into-submission.ars
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Lose License To Chase Pirates
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| Just days after Norway’s data protection department told ISPs they must
| delete all personal IP address-related data three weeks after collection,
| it’s now become safer than ever to be a file-sharer in Norway. The only law
| firm with a license to track pirates has just seen it expire and it won’t be
| renewed.
|
| Earlier this month we reported that since Norway’s Personal Data act
| prohibits the storage of unnecessary data, ISPs in the country must delete
| all IP address-related personal information they hold on their customers
| which is more than three weeks old. This makes it very hard in most cases to
| track down illicit file-sharers.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawyers-loses-license-to-chase-pirates-090622/
Recent:
HADOPI Copyright Law To Get New Set Of Teeth With Additional Law
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| The Sarkozy government will implement a law aimed at promoting legal online
| downloading in the coming months despite being prevented from cutting off the
| internet access of alleged three-time offenders, according to official
| sources. Meanwhile, the government has already begun preparing a new law that
| would restore penalties this time decided by a judge rather than by the newly
| created HADOPI commission. This would conform to a constitutional ruling on
| the HADOPI law.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/16/hadopi-copyright-law-to-get-new-set-of-teeth-with-additional-law/
http://tinyurl.com/lo2rfp
New Zealand tries to revive 3 strikes law
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| The New Zealand government is still working hard — on behalf of the corporate
| movie and music cartels. And at taxpayer expense.
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| It’s trying to find another way to implement the now thoroughly sullied Three
| Strikes plan, the fact French efforts have just been shot down in flames
| notwithstanding.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23367
Second chance for French net bill
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| A controversial French bill which could disconnect people caught downloading
| music illegally three times returns to parliament on Wednesday for debate.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8024475.stm
Hadopi : l'UMP, parti pirate !
http://www.marianne2.fr/Hadopi-l-UMP,-parti-pirate-!_a178735.html
As Sarkozy Pushes Three Strikes, He Pays Up For His Own Copyright Violations
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| Now, you might hope that this would cause Sarkozy to rethink his stance on
| copyright infringement. Instead, it looks like his political party has simply
| agreed to pay up and make the issue go away, while still pushing for the
| three strikes law. It sounds like they paid about 30,000 euros, which is a
| lot more than the single euro that Sarkozy's party initially offered (yes,
| seriously). No word on whether or not this counts towards the number of
| strikes on Sarkozy's internet connection.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090428/1204424684.shtml
Political Hypocrisy: French President Sued for Copyright Infringement
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| This may very well become the most ironic stories of 2009 in the copyright
| debate. The CBC is reporting that French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been
| sued by an independent band for copyright infringement.
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/10034/Political+Hypocrisy+French+President+Sued+for+Copyright+Infringement
Is Nicholas Sarkozy One Strike Towards Losing His Internet Connection?
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| The latest is that French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, a big supporter of
| setting up a three strikes law in France, is being accused of violating
| copyright law himself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090226/0101073907.shtml
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
UK government stole website theme
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| NUMBER 10, the UK Prime Minister's website, is apparently built using a
| design it nicked.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/18/uk-government-stole-website
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