France Revokes Ability To Disconnect Convicted File-Sharers From the Internet 97
New submitter Nicolas Jondet writes "French courts will not be able to disconnect convicted file-sharers from the Internet anymore. On Tuesday, the French Culture minister issued a decree modifying the graduated response scheme and removing the disconnection penalty. 'The report says that instead of simply disconnecting users, those suspected of copyright could be fined if they did not reply to warnings, with a relatively low fine (€60) to begin, and the size of the fine would increase depending on the number of infractions. French anti-piracy will now their focus – instead of handing heavy punishments to individual users, the government is looking towards penalizing "commercial piracy" and "sites that profit from pirated material," according to an official spokesperson.'"
Re:For once... (Score:5, Insightful)
I find your comment entertaining since it calls an entire country as cowards thus continuing a meme my peers have celebrated with many laughings, HOHO! I want to join with their laughings to reinforce my sense of self worth by pretending I AM TEH USA, HAHA! I know nothings of history for that is for the fags.
If you define Pirated Material as Stolen Material (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:"commercial piracy" (Score:2, Insightful)
What have you ever published, that you think you deserve to deny professional writers and musicians a chance to make a decent living?
Deliberately or just through ignorance, you confuse copyright and droit d’auteur. Copyright was created by publishers, and mostly used by them.
But don't let being wrong cause you to reassess your world view.