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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.

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  1. Re:Well all I can say is... by bechthros · · Score: 0, Troll

    They hate you too. Does anybody else think it's ironic somebody bashing the French as "cheese eating surrender monkeys" chooses to post under the name "Anonymous Coward"? I do.

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    They will never stop until somebody makes the
  2. Re:France to piss of America?? by alder · · Score: 0, Troll
    You just strengthened me in my idea that the majority of Americans have no idea about what is going on in the rest of the world.
    "Majority" implies something like 51% or more. They have not thought up a word for 99%, IIRC ;-)
  3. Re:Obvious Question by 48879 · · Score: 0, Troll

    They found out he/she was German.. Didn't want another smackdown..

  4. Re:Opening phrase of the article by fhunngu · · Score: 0, Troll

    You would have to be named "jean-paul", smoke massive quantities of Gitanes,speak of "ennui" and have a girlfriend who is laconic,fashionably badly-dressed,unshaven and anti-american. To be able to use that term in a sentence. "sartre"