Legal Victory for P2P in France

nietsch writes "The Register is reporting that a french Kazaa user that had been sued by the SCPP (the french equivalent of the RIAA) has been acquitted by the courts in his county. 'The Judges decided that these acts of downloading and uploading qualified as private copying' Ars Technica has more coverage on the subject, or you can read it in english from the organization that lead the defense."

Comments

Re:Early Days

[theJML]

"The music industry is very used to getting their way. They have plenty of money to give to politicians when they aren't giving it to radio stations in illegal pay for play schemes. Give them a while and they will bribe the bad news away..."

Because God Forbid the music industry actually gives any of that money to the people that write/play/record/produce/create the music that makes them an industry. I figure the artists should actually see some of the money instead of it being spent on lawsuits and red-tape.

I mean, that's like winning the $100M lottery and only getting $5 out of it because someone decided that they'd use the rest of the money to sue other people to make sure someone doesn't steal my $5.

I guess I just don't see how the RIAA isn't a wholy owned subsidiary of the Mafia.

Re:who knew?

[Anonymous Coward]

Must explain the WWII stuff and all.

Like why France was the first country to declare war on the Nazis in Sept '39 while the US just sat on their hands?

Re:France surrenders to the War on P2P

[ThinWhiteDuke]

I would have thought, in this specific occurrence, that it is the US who surrendered to big business.

But I'm just French. And not even Republican. What do I know about spinning news?