P2P (More) Legal in France

Posted by Hemos on Friday March 11, 2005 @03:20AM 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.

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Re:Opening phrase of the article by robyannetta · 2005-03-11 10:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In a similar quote from Family Guy...
Cleveland: The only British I know is that "fag" means cigarette.
Peter: Well, somebody tell this cigarette to shut up.
Okay, a bit offtopic, but still funny as hell.

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