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Nicolas Sarkozy: French President Accused Of Pirating 400 DVDs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/nicolas-sarkozy-french-pr_n_313723.html
Daddy Sarkozy defends rise of his âPrince Jeanâ
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| WHEN Steve Ballmer, the head of Microsoft,
| visited Paris earlier this month to open a new
| French headquarters, he agreed to hold only three
| private meetings.
|
| Two of them were with cabinet ministers. The
| third, to the dismay of distinguished politicians
| and businessmen who had put in bids for a word
| with the executive titan, was with a 23-year-old
| undergraduate known in the French press as
| âPrince Jeanâ.
|
| The meteoric rise of Nicolas Sarkozyâs son Jean â
| about to take charge of one of the biggest
| business districts in Europe â has prompted
| comparisons to a banana republic, fuelling
| outrage at the French presidentâs increasingly
| high-handed ways.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6879420.ece
Charter Commun: Judge to OK bankruptcy exit plan
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| St. Louis-based Charter is controlled by
| Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen. It filed
| for bankruptcy protection in March, struggling
| under $21.7 billion in debt accumulated as it
| made a string of acquisitions. The tight credit
| market prevented it from refinancing its loans or
| getting new ones.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jYQtd8hZvzx7TqPGvELQ69xVXTGwD9BBQVH80
Recent:
Pirates ! French presidency makes 400 unauthorized copies of DVD
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| The French satirical investigative journalism
| weekly âLe Canard EnchaÃnÃâ reveals that our
| holier-than-thou presidency is in fact a pirateâs
| lair. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the
| presidential audiovisual services produced 400
| unauthorized copies of the 52 minutes documentary
| âA visage dÃcouvert : Nicolas Sarkozyâ.
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http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2009/10/08/french-presidency-makes-400-unauthorized-copies-of-dvd
Nicolas "Copyright" Sarkozy mass-pirates DVDs
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| Glyn sez, "The same French president who has for
| the second time brought in three strikes to
| France has for the second time been caught
| infringing copyright on a large scale.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/08/nicolas-copyright-sa.html
UK latest: it's not a Hadopi, not as we know it
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| Parking-fine style Internet suspension may be
| proposed by the British government, as a sanction
| for against peer-to-peer users who are alleged to
| have infringed copyright.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=419&Itemid=9
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
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