Why France’s piracy watchdog is missing teeth
07 October 2011
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Edward Conlon, London
French courts might soon decide whether 60 alleged internet pirates should be fined or be cut off from the internet after they ignored final warnings about infringing copyright
The individuals failed to
respond to emails from an administrative body called Hadopi,
which monitors the sharing of copyrighted material on
peer-to-peer networks and operates a controversial three-strike
system of warnings for alleged illegal downloaders.
Hadopi, which began work in...
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