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New Euro Telecom Package Paves the Way for France's '3-Strikes' Law

By soulxtc

Despite European Parliament voting to include amendment that users cannot be disconnected from the Internet "without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities," French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who conveniently holds the European Council Presidency, manages to have the amendment stripped from a final version. France continues to be in an odd position these days as entertainment industry champion and opponent of requiring that only judges can sanction accused file-sharers rather than copyright holders themselves. It was just a little over 4 months ago that a European-wide Telecom Package for ISPs was first discussed and noted to include mandatory notice-and-takedown systems run by ISPs and paid for by respective governments. When the Telecom Package came before the European Parliament the body thankfully voted to include Amendment 138 which mandated that "..

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).