France Seeks To Push 3-Strikes Law Across Europe

quanticle writes "As you may recall, France previously threatened to cut off broadband access for file sharers. However, after lobbying by the public, the legislation failed in the National Assembly. Now, the government of Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to revive the the measure by pushing it as an amendment to the pan-European Telecoms Package. This amendment has the potential to impose 3-strikes across Europe, not just in France."

Comments

Re:so we can hate the french again?

[zappepcs]

To say that it is transparent, and the reasoning behind it is that shallow is akin to saying we were duped into war by nearly complete idiots.

Now THAT really would look bad. I prefer to see lizard skin sticking out of a hole in Bush's skin sometime shortly after this next election or something else to give away the secret. Anything but 'The world is full of sheeple and idiots that allowed the monkey to start a war' ?

Re:For fuck's sake

[jez9999]

That would make sense with a system of proportional representation, sure, and I'd agree all the way. Unfortunately, the UK system is one of constituencies, and even if the winning party in your constituency agrees with all your opinions (highly unlikely), you're still TOTALLY unrepresented if the party you voted for didn't win. So frankly voting with their conscience doesn't really matter in a system that is already horribly flawed.