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French "3 Strikes" Law Returns, In Slightly Altered Form
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "The French Senate has once again approved a reworked version of the country's controversial 'three strikes' bill designed to appease the Constitutional Council. Instead of a state-appointed agency cutting off those accused of being repeat offenders, judges will have the final say over punishment. The approval comes exactly one month after the country's Constitutional Council ripped apart the previous version of the Création et Internet law. ... Not content to let the idea die, President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration reworked the law in hopes of making it amenable to the Council — instead of HADOPI deciding on its own to cut off users on the third strike, it will now report offenders to the courts. A judge can then choose to ban the user from the Internet, fine him or her 300,000 (according to the AFP), or hand over a two-year prison sentence."
Do they have the internet in French prison?
As Robin Williams said in a great comedy routine, "So There! You Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys!" Or Monty Python's "Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries" Well at least they are willing to put up with our merde.
This parody of a law Still have to make it in front of constitutionnal council.
Naboleon Sarkozy is playing a "W Bush" card... constitution... that's just a piece of paper...
I wonder why politician who purposefully push -illegal- laws don't end up in jail...
... become so bourgeois?
fine him or her 300,000 (according to the AFP)
"Your honor, on the slight chance that this court does not accept either the termite mound or the truck-load of bottlecaps, I have also brought this bag containing a sufficient quantity of dead skin cells."
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
and remove potential tax revenue (people in prison are not earning taxable income
Duh, haven't you read the financial impact studies from music industry? Putting these people in prison will prevent six hundred trillion dollars in piracy, which means eighty two hundred trillion in extra tax revenue to the government.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Not just that. I always wonder what an Anonymous Cowardon is. Is it like a simpleton aka Slashdot programmer, or what?
Have you tried getting _all_ comments to show with a single click without being logged in? As in, don't drag a slider and click dozens of times on "More". That would really help on a mobile device.
But whatever, fucking Slashdot is unusable on anything under 2GHz anyway. Seriously, has anyone tried using /. on Opera mobile? Rendering takes fucking ages.
QUIT FUCKING AROUND YOU WANNABE SLASHDOT CRACK WHORES AND HIRE SOME PROS TO FIX THE FUCKING SITE.
Which would you rather have, be banned from the internet for life, or serve two years in prison? I figure nearly all the /.ers will go for the prison jumpsuit.
arguing that there is not enough court time to try Mr Serial Rapist because we are too busy trying Miss Downloaded Britney isn't going to cut it.
Isn't it a bit unfortunate for those people to have such names? Particularly if (like most people) they were given them by their parents?
Won't this prejudice any case against them?
Also, in your example above you failed to explain what crimes these people actually committed. What if Mr. Serial Rapist had been downloading Britney Spears tracks, and Ms. Downloaded Britney was actually a serial rapist?
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Oh, come on! Are you seriously suggesting that a high profile politician such as a president or prime minister could fuck his country law system just because of some woman?