French President Busted For Copyright Violation 317
An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has an interesting take on the story of Nicolas Sarkozy being accused of copyright infringement. The irony, of course, is Sarkozy's pushing of a 3-strikes law — disconnecting from the Internet those accused of file sharing — in France and across the EU. The French president had apparently offered to settle the copyright infringement accusation for one Euro, but the band rejected the offer, calling it an insult. The article notes that each year since 2006, a high-profile anti-piracy entity has been on the wrong end of a copyright infringement notice. In 2008, Sony BMG was sued for software piracy. In 2007, anti-piracy outfit BASCAP received a cease and desist order related to pirated software. And in 2006, the MPAA was accused of pirating 'This Film is Not Yet Rated'."
Retroactive exemption for political purposes in (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Will the 3 strikes policy affect him? (Score:5, Funny)
Fat wife [courant.com]?
Re:The band in question (Score:5, Funny)
And this proves a major prejudice about non-Americans: Most of you immediately assume that anyone on the internet who makes an idiotic or misinformed comment is American.
In fairness, the guy's handle is "ScrewMaster", so he prolly is American.
Re:FUCK ARTISTS (Score:5, Funny)
That's exactly what the RIAA says too.
http://cosmo7.com/safety/safetyriaa.jpg [cosmo7.com]
Re:The band in question (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FUCK ARTISTS (Score:3, Funny)
Cheer up, emo kid. I guarantee that you think very highly of yourself or you wouldn't have typed out that long, holier than thou, rant. You really should, as you tell others, hate yourself more, because you're a pretentious cunt and your message isn't worth the hard drive space it's saved on.
Re:The band in question (Score:2, Funny)
Isn't it er, you know, "F"?
Re:The band in question (Score:3, Funny)
How many US citizens know what the capital of Florida is?
Disney World, duh!
Re:The band in question (Score:5, Funny)
How many US citizens know what the capital of Florida is?
had to look up the answer. I'm not from the US and do not live there.
It's Tallahassee. ;-)
Didn't have to look it up; Learned it from Animaniacs
your extremism is showing (Score:3, Funny)
Was this some kind of self-deprecating meta-ironic remark, or did you really extrapolate to all Americans
Yes, he clearly extrapolated that "ALL Americans [x.]"
Not that "a depressingly large number of Americans [x.]", that couldn't be possibly what he meant.
coincidence? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Retroactive exemption for political purposes in (Score:3, Funny)
Great, so now Israelis have to deal with offers to enlarge their penises from their politicians? Don't those people have enough problems already?
Re:Well, if he gets cut off (Score:3, Funny)
He'll just start mooching off his neighbor's wifi.
And if that fails, he can mooch off the neighbor's wife.
Re:The band in question (Score:3, Funny)
Statistically, this is a correct assumption for most of the time. ;) :)
Then come the Japanese and the Germans I think...
I only do it, to prevent conversations like this:
Thaikonnu. Shohei javasa koooi shetegeh wasabi san!
Sense makin. Ur doin it rong. Repeet plzkthx?
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