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P2P (More) Legal in France

Posted by Hemos on from the not-in-the-free-and-open dept.

A reader writes:"A french appeal court ruled yesterday in favour of somebody who downloaded about 500 movies, on the ground that those were private copies, and that he didn't redistributed them, and that a tax was payed on blank media. This sets the huge precedent that P2P is legal over there. For the details, apparently no distinction was made on the method used to download the movies (upload issues) and the famous EUCD directive was even used by the defending lawyer." You'll want the fish for this one, unless you speak French.

6 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. French music... by Masker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, this makes sense, right, because it's not French music anymore, it's freedom music.

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  2. Re:Here's the Google Translation into English by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the Google Translation:
    ... "a first breach in the field of the remote loading", declared to Me Joelle Glock, one of lawyers of prevented, estimating that the supreme court of appeal will have to decide in this business.

    I think I was better off reading the French...

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  3. Lets Move To France by starmang · · Score: 3, Funny

    because they have cheap wine, fine women and piracy does not exist! Viva la France!

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  4. Re:Opening phrase of the article by troon · · Score: 5, Funny

    This term is actually also in common use in Poland.

    ...except they spell it yntyrznyrczyt.

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  5. Re:Opening phrase of the article by phayes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe that you are mistaken as this is exactly how it is spelled in Welsh. The difference between the the two languages is that Polish usually has at least one vowel per word...

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  6. Re:Precedent? by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 3, Funny
    At the request of the RIAA and MPAA, Bush invades france in 5...4...3...2...1...

    And as an added bonus, he can squish Elf-Aquitaine!