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P2P (More) Legal in France
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.
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.
They will never stop until somebody makes the
Just for clarification, no one needs any extra reasons to hate the french. We've got plenty, and if we run out, we'll make some up.
How come this got modded this down as flamebait when all it is is a collection of historical FACTS?
It should have been modded UP as informative.
American movies are made by private enterprise, and French people prefer to watch them, rather than the intellectual masturbation generally produced by the French film industry.
In France, this is called cultural imperialism.
I wouldn't be surprised if the judge really just wanted to stick it to the American film industry, simply for being successful.
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You forgot "and shoot blindlessly at civil hostages from a friendly country to release tension".
They found out he/she was German.. Didn't want another smackdown..
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"