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French President Busted For Copyright Violation

An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has an interesting take on the story of Nicolas Sarkozy being accused of copyright infringement. The irony, of course, is Sarkozy's pushing of a 3-strikes law — disconnecting from the Internet those accused of file sharing — in France and across the EU. The French president had apparently offered to settle the copyright infringement accusation for one Euro, but the band rejected the offer, calling it an insult. The article notes that each year since 2006, a high-profile anti-piracy entity has been on the wrong end of a copyright infringement notice. In 2008, Sony BMG was sued for software piracy. In 2007, anti-piracy outfit BASCAP received a cease and desist order related to pirated software. And in 2006, the MPAA was accused of pirating 'This Film is Not Yet Rated'."

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  1. Re:Will the 3 strikes policy affect him? by Dionysus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck you frenchy, I hope you and your fat wife drown in a vat of wine.

    Fat wife?

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  2. Re:The band in question by Quothz · · Score: 4, Funny

    And this proves a major prejudice about non-Americans: Most of you immediately assume that anyone on the internet who makes an idiotic or misinformed comment is American.

    In fairness, the guy's handle is "ScrewMaster", so he prolly is American.

  3. Re:FUCK ARTISTS by eltaco · · Score: 5, Funny

    Artists are my slaves, and they don't deserve shit for their work. As I said, FUCK artists, and FUCK their rights. I'm not doing anything wrong.

    That's exactly what the RIAA says too.
    http://cosmo7.com/safety/safetyriaa.jpg

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  4. Re:The band in question by stonewallred · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least 8% of us have it right.

  5. Re:FUCK ARTISTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cheer up, emo kid. I guarantee that you think very highly of yourself or you wouldn't have typed out that long, holier than thou, rant. You really should, as you tell others, hate yourself more, because you're a pretentious cunt and your message isn't worth the hard drive space it's saved on.

  6. Re:The band in question by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many US citizens know what the capital of Florida is?
    had to look up the answer. I'm not from the US and do not live there.

    It's Tallahassee.
    Didn't have to look it up; Learned it from Animaniacs ;-)

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