Bono says he’ll sue France over HADOPI
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- French European Parliament MP Guy Bono says he’ll call for legal action against France if it adopts the corporate entertainment cartel’s HADOPI law.
Pushed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, France’s lower house of Parliament has passed the “three-strikes” law, also known as the HADOPI law.
“But the measure runs afoul of EU efforts to ban such access cut-offs without court orders and could generate a legal challenge, the EU Observer reported Wednesday,” says United Press International, going on »»»
French Socialist MEP Guy Bono says he will … ask the European Commission, which has consistently supported the parliament’s position against Internet access cut-offs, to initiate a lawsuit against Paris for “not respecting (European) community legislation.
“If a French constitutional judge does not react, I will ask the European Commission to request the European Court of Justice launch infringement proceedings against the French government for not respecting community law,” Bono told the newspaper.
Says IPTegrity »»»
A new law, known as the Loi HADOPI after the authority which will oversee the implementation ( the High Authority for the diffusion of content and protection of rights on the Internet) sets out how users may be sanctioned by ISPs on behalf of copyright owners. Information will be passed between them via the HADOPI authority to get around data protection rules. Data retention laws will also be amended to enable the data to be stored for a year and accessed for the purposes of copyright protection.
Users will receive an electronic and a written warning, before being threatened with suspension of their account and ultimately termination (hence 3 strikes and you`re out!`. The electronic warnings will be sent to thousands of users, using an automated system. ISPs will be forced to check a blacklist of terminated users before signing up new customers, and fined if they fail to do so.
And a new Charter for ISPs, which will mandate the filtering of content. Filtering means the ISPs will check for anyone using P2P software and may slow it down or block it. They may also depending on how it is implemented be asked to open every packet of data to inspect it for copyrighted content. This would be the equivalent of asking the post office to open every envelope in case it contained copyrighted material.
Stay tuned.
HADOPI law – Will France toe the corporate line?, May 13, 2009
United Press International – EU member targets French Internet law, May 13, 2009
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May 14th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Prediction: If HADOPI ever goes down for good, Carla Bruni will divorce Nicolas Sarkozy.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Exactly. This Bruni-Sarkozy whoring happened when they met with Denis Olivennes.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Why exactly does everybody seem to believe that Carla whats-her-name had anything to do with this?
You REALLY think this is about the French president trying to score some quick ass from his wife?
What’s really interesting here is: isn’t Bono the guy who was bitching about how evil “piracy” is, and urging things like this?
Or was that his publicist? (Not that I listen to U2 — they suck.) But I seem to remember Bono as being one of the RIAA’s stable of whiny corporate-label spokes-bitches in regard to how evil p2p is.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Hey Henry, wrong Bono. This is friend politician Guy Bono, not our favourite tinted glasses wearing asshat. Mind you, i nearly fell off the chair myself when i read the article title.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Scaramouche:
Thanks for the clarification. When I read the title, I was all like “whaaaaat? Of all the hypocritical douchebaggery!”
Of course, it wouldn’t surprise me if Irish Assmonkey himself HAD done it.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Lol @ france. For years they have been trying (together with Germany) to get a ultimate president for the EU. Then they tried to get a law passed that their word weighs more than the word of some other countries in the EU. Still they cling to their “own” EU parliment house. One is ine Brussels and the other one is in France which forces the MEP’s to commute between those two locations because seating times have to be equal. (about 200m⬠extra inte travellers costs / year). They don’t want to give that up, even after 1 000 000 EU citizens signed a petition to get it to one seat only (basically they would have shut down the French parliment house). Now they vote in a law that is totally contradictory to the EU. I don’t really understand why the EU exists because everyone will do what they want when it fits them. If the EU fits then it’s used otherwise it’s totally forgotten.
The funny thing about the 1 seat petition is that if the EU constitution (which France pushed very hard for) would have passed they would have had to deal with the issue.
from oneseat.eu
“Article 47 on participatory democracy in the proposed constitution for the European Union, which the European Commission supports, wants the citizens in the European Union to become more active and to participate in the debate on European issues.”
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING FRANCE?
May 15th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Me thinks the English speaking countries came in a little too soon and saved their asses… their sissy language has scrambled their brains, had the Brits not saved their asses they would all be speaking German now and… would be as quiet as them, busy making (good) cars or something
