France joins RIAA, MPAA
p2pnet news Politics:- | P2P:- French culture minister Christine Albanel has formally presented the 'three strikes and you're out' P2P file sharing bill to cabinet, effectively turning the country into a massive taxpayer financed, but entertainment industry controlled, copyright enforcement agency.
"The legislation would set up a new administrative body that would receive complaints from the music and film industry and track down offenders through Internet service providers," says Agence France-Presse.
"An e-mail warning would be sent to suspected downloaders followed by a registered letter," it says.
After two "strikes," suspects would risk losing their Net broadband connections for up to a year.
The rules will come into effect in January when French Web users will be targetted for downloading copyrighted films and songs, "presumably including those of President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy," says the Independent.
"There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone," the story has Sarkozy, an ardent supporter of the George W. Bush administration, saying.
He's been following the issue of artists' rights closely since marrying Carla Bruni, a singer and model whose next album is due out next month, says the Telegraph, going on:
"One of the couple's first meetings was when she took part in a cross-industry delegation which handed its proposals to Mr Sarkozy at the Elysée last November."
France's new £15 million ($29,604,314) government body, Hadopi, "will be in charge of sanctioning offenders," says the story.
"Companies will be required to install firewalls to stop employees conducting illegal downloads from work computers."
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