French ‘Three strikes’ HADOPI – back again?
“HADOPI’s ‘three strikes’ is finally buried ,” wrote Jérémie Zimmermann, director of La Quadrature du Net in Paris. “All we have now is a big tax-sponsored spam machine for the entertainment industries.” HADOPI is short for Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet (High Authority of Diffusion of the Art Works and Protection of the (Copy)Rights on Internet), an agency dreamed up by French president Nicolas Sarkozy in a blatant bid to fall in line with corporate entertainment cartel copyright enforcement dictates. The Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority, “decided that presumption of innocence is more important than the idiotic schemes from the entertainment industries to artificially prolong their obsolete models,” said Zimmermann .
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