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French "3 Strikes" Law Returns, In Slightly Altered Form

Posted by timothy on from the more-where-that-came-from dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Could be worse by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's much worse now - before they just kicked you off the internet - now some clueless judge will rubber stamp prison time.

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  2. Re:Still have to make it in front of constitutionn by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    atleast the french are likely to riot and turn over a few police cars to show their displeasure. american's will form a few facebook groups and register to show their outrage...

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  3. Re:A war of attrition... by spire3661 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those gross injustices have ALWAYS been going on, we just hear more about it with the rise in global comms. THis has ben going on for a VERY long time. I have no doubt that when Mickey Mouse comes up for public domain again that they will buy more politicians and set the time limit even longer.

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  4. Re:Any Three Strikes Law Should Unconstitutional by Xphile101361 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If only these laws had been around earlier. It might have protected us from the likes of people like Martin Luther King Jr who alone was arrested over 20 times! I'm sure the British would also agree with you that hardened criminals like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi should have been thrown in jail with the key tossed away after being arrested numerous times.