Comments on: France Rejects 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law

By: Three Strikes, but Safe | Gonzaga Intellectual Property Law Association Blog

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:46:15 +0000

[...] on PrawfsBlawg) Just before Easter, French lawmakers declined to approve an Internet piracy legislation that would have been arguably the most far-reaching law of its [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:23:27 +0000

Well at least the commies respect the opinion of the masses.

Bravo pour cette victoire épique!

By: d

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:11:03 +0000

imagine all the fun when someone decides to write a new zombie to infect and leech

By: The Drill Down O83 - ncomment’s War | The Drill Down

The Drill Down O83 - ncomment’s War | The Drill Down — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:58:14 +0000

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By: Stormblade

Stormblade — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:54:29 +0000

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By: France Rejects 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law - India Broadband Forum

France Rejects 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law - India Broadband Forum — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:18:33 +0000

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By: The missing link « Domen Bajde

The missing link « Domen Bajde — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:18:37 +0000

[...] missing link TorrentFreak reports about a surprising turn of events in the French “piracy war”: Last week, the [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:20:24 +0000

thank you, this happened when I was still in France xd

By: dlj

dlj — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:34:21 +0000

Wow, now that was unexpected, and some awesome news, gratz to the french people =)

By: BlueApe

BlueApe — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:35:38 +0000

Win

By: YAY!

YAY! — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:10:56 +0000

Le win de epic! … or somethign :D

By: piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged » ruff linkage 200915

piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged » ruff linkage 200915 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:45:02 +0000

[...] France Rejects 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law – "Last week, the French Parliament passed a new law requiring Internet service providers to cut off Internet access for persistent copyright offenders. Since the parliament voted in favor of the law, everyone – including the most fanatical critics – believed that it would easily pass through Senate and the National Assembly today – but it didn’t." [...]

By: Bobe-On

Bobe-On — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:57:25 +0000

Are politicians jerking around with taxpayers’ money like this in the first place?

By: Fabrice Epelboin

Fabrice Epelboin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:19 +0000

It’s a huge victory for bloggers in France, before this unexpected rejection of Hadopi, no media ever gave any coverage to the law. Now it’s everywhere, even in the New York Times!

Blogs and websites like numerama, pcimpact, ecrans.fr and fr.readwriteweb.com have been batteling for months, giving the opposition all the necessary details and explanations for anti-Hadopi deputies to perfectly master their argument during the debate.

Yes we can!

By: JTK

JTK — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:05:46 +0000

Yes!

By: Francja: Nowe prawo antypirackie jednak odrzucone! | P2P.INFO.PL - Centrum informacyjne technologii P2P

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:52:53 +0000

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By: France Says “Non” to Anti-Piracy Laws | Royalty Free Music Blog | Micro Stock Music | Sound Effects Discussion Forum

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:31:04 +0000

[...] isn’t the only country undergoing significant changes in policy amidst anti-piracy laws. TorrentFreak is reporting this week that France has rejected the three-strikes copyright infringement penalty [...]

By: Virate

Virate — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:40:00 +0000

Oui Oui les Cheveaux

By: lyecdevf

lyecdevf — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:33:15 +0000

…and the day was saved by the socialists.

By: Institutions

Institutions — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:57:07 +0000

Theoretically yes there is a need of a quorum (half the chamber +1) but there is a loop hole since they doesn’t count before voting assuming there is always a quorum (one of the party leaders have to ask the President of the chamber to check if the quorum is reach).
If there’s no quorum there is a report time to get more deputies/senators (most of them are in fact in the building working on the next laws project in “work comities” who are composed by members of all the groups).
That’s kind of weird but that’s how it works it allow parliament members to specialise themselves (security specialised deputies goes work on security laws, budget specialised deputies goes work on budget laws, etc…) none can be an expert of all that way they don’t spend all their time either sleeping or posing dumb questions during the debate/vote part (the “debate” part it’s therefore inexistent in the Assembly, the the debate still exist but in smaller specialised comities). It’s a schedule arrangement with this system you debate in fact dozen of laws at the same time.

The call for quorum is in fact used to avoid a case like that (when a majority party leader realise there is more opposition’s members than it’s own troops present to vote he has to call it to gain time to go rally some).
That’s why I wouldn’t be in the shoes of the UMP group leader right now (who was absent during the vote and therefore let this happen).