On Thursday 29 January 2009 16:07, Matthew Toseland wrote: ... > So what this means is that the government has no intention of forcing ISPs to > block peer to peer software, and the intention is to warn offenders, sue the > most serious offenders, and presumably have disconnection, filtering of the > offender's connection, or similar sanctions as a middle road, subject to > appeals and requiring evidence. This is probably the most we could have hoped > for; under French law, developing peer to peer software is illegal as well as > there being arbitrary disconnections, apparently without evidence or appeal > (but I have not investigated this in detail).
Warning: I Am Not A Lawyer! And certainly not a French one! Look up DADVSI yourself if you live in France ... and there is a new law, Hadopi? I only have rumours about this one really, please post details if you have them.
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