Legal Authority Kills French Three-Strikes Law

[SBfreak]

Great news!!!!!

The French Hadopi legislation passed last month introduced draconian measures to combat piracy, including a “three strikes” regime for persistent copyright infringers. However, France’s highest constitutional authority today ruled that Internet access is a fundamental human right and killed the three-strikes provision.

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[anon]

Great news for the french indeed. Downloading stuff at the same time a part of you fears that will get you disconnected must feel really bad.

[slikrapid]

well, looks like a good outcome after all (imo the french president wouldn't back up, but the eu found another way to go over their heads), but i wouldn't rejoice just yet:

- riaa and its subordinates haven't been crippled yet - they should be sued for using and abusing legal and illegal means of harassment/privacy violation/falsifying evidence and much much more - they operate like a criminal organization fighting 'criminal'
- there is still a large threat considering internet and restricting access to it - as we heard about the 'telecom packages' that were also dismissed recently by the EU parliament

http://www.blackouteurope.eu/

there are new attempts developing continuously under different names but with the same agenda, and they try to go globally (EU organization), locally (countries), also sub-locally (ISPs) and personally (users)

imo copyright issues are used to try to control the internet and deny/limit access to controversial/'unwanted'/'dangerous' information from the users

did you notice how ordinary manufacturers make a product and get paid for it only once - for every next product they have to make it again; on the other hand patents/copyright allows for exploiting the same product over and over again for decades, which is basically an 'unlimited' source of profit (movies/music/... is just copied and distributed for the same price over and over again)