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Legal Victory for P2P in France

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-their-slimey-lawyers-on-loan-to-riaa dept.

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."

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  1. Legal Victory? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The SCPP did not win; wouldn't that be a legal defeat?

  2. Still, stop trading copyrighted stuff by Sithgunner · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just want to say, that P2P being legal still does not allow exchanging of copyrighted material, and hope those traders who has no respect to creators of those materials start hurraying and download all night like monkeys...

  3. Re:who knew? by geekee · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "America's image as bringers of freedom, fighters against tyranny, and lighthouse of the world for democracy was right at the end of WW2. Since then, it's been going downhill quite frankly."

    Yeah, because America had nothing to do with the downfall of the Soviet Union, the most oppresive regime in all of history.

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