Day 4 of Article 13 Passage: France Quickly Moves to Implement Filtering Drew Wilson | March 30, 2019 The laws aren’t meant to be implemented until 2021, but for France, the demise of the open Internet can’t come soon enough. They want to implement censorship quicker then that.
Disconnection In French Three Strikes Law Scrapped Drew Wilson | July 10, 2013 It may have been a long time coming. The French government has announced that it would no longer be disconnecting alleged copyright infringer’s from the Internet. Instead, it’ll be focused on commercial piracy and merely issuing fines instead.
Opinion: Combining Several Bad Ideas Won’t Stop Piracy Drew Wilson | March 13, 2013 By Drew Wilson Last week, a report suggested that the government agency HADOPI was gearing up to combine website blocking, three strikes laws, search engine demotion and the cutting off of forms of revenue as a means to try and put the squeeze on piracy. Drew Wilson offers his opinion on the matter. One thing …
Procedural Error Sinks Would-Be HADOPI Conviction Drew Wilson | January 13, 2013 By Drew Wilson The HADOPI law (Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet) and its government agency under the same name, has had its share of controversy over the years in France. Now, another incident has occurred that just adds to the list of reasons why some might …
HADOPI Three Strikes Law at a Crossroad Drew Wilson | August 11, 2012 A three strikes law is one of a number of ideas major corporate entities have brought forth as a way to stem the flow of file-sharing and free information. France had the dubious honour of being amongst the first countries to test run this experiment. Now, years later, France is apparently looking to finally shed …
French Report – Legal Punishment for Filesharing as Severe as Manslaughter Drew Wilson | August 29, 2011 One of the criticisms of copyright laws has, for some time, been that the punishment is far too severe for the crime being committed. This debate is nothing new and it seems to be heating up in Europe right now. One French news site decided to compare the penalties of file-sharing to the penalties of …
School Teacher Could Take HADOPI to Court Over False Accusations Drew Wilson | July 17, 2011 He is a 54 year old school teacher. He is also one of the first number of people to receive multiple notices from HADOPI for copyright infringement. He also doesn’t know how to download pirated copies of copyrighted works and says that he was the victim of WiFi hacking.
Major French Political Party Wants to Repeal HADOPI Drew Wilson | June 24, 2011 Martine Aubry, the secretary of the Socialist Party, has recently announced her intentions to repeal HADOPI (“law promoting the distribution and protection of creative works on the internet”) – the famous French law that contains a three strikes law.
HADOPI Blamed for ISP Rate Hikes in France Drew Wilson | January 1, 2011 The goal of The High Authority for the Protection of works on the Internet (HADOPI) is to stop piracy, but French internet users are learning that the only thing HADOPI has effectively stopped is low rates for an internet connection. “Free”, one of France’s largest telecom company admitted that ISP rate hikes were “inevitable”.
Wikileaks: MPAA, RIAA and BSA Lobbied for HADOPI Drew Wilson | December 19, 2010 Wikileaks has been releasing plenty of new details on how the US views the world. Amongst the interesting tidbits of information buried inside Cablegate was what role the MPAA, the RIAA and the BSA has in France’s new HADOPI law.
