French Assembly Rejects Three Strikes Bill

An anonymous reader writes "The French Assembly has rejected the Three Strikes bill (in French!) which would allow ISPs to cut off users found to have been downloading protected content after two warnings. Summary: the Sarkozy administration can go back with a new draft for approval by both chambers or try to get upper house approval of a softer version without the cutoff passed by the lower house."

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Re:!commonsenseprevails

[andymadigan]

Because it is easy enough to make it look like someone downloaded something illegally, when they really didn't. Also, if I remember correctly this law does not give the cut-off customer legal recourse (if you say they did something illegal, prove it in court or GTFO).

Re:Hooray

[English French Man]

Keep in mind that there were 36 members of parliament who voted, where the assembly is made of 577... Being French myself, I watched the live stream. The president of the assembly was dumbstruck.

Members of parliament also have other things to do than discussing and voting every law that goes through.

That said, members of the assembly were a lot fewer than usual this morning. This could be because some members didn't want to vote this law (votes are public, and they don't want to face public opinion), so stayed the ones who intended to vote against this law, and too few of the ones whose party line was to vote for the law.