French Three-Strikes Law Ruled Unconstitutional 195
An anonymous reader was one of several to write with this news: "The French 'Conseil Constitutionnel' just ruled that the recently voted 'Hadopi' law, which enforces a 'three strikes and you're out' system, is actually unconstitutional [article in French; here's an English-language article at Ars]. They mainly make two points: 1) They argue that removing Internet access is equivalent to hindering a person's freedom of speech, and as such can only be decided by appointed judges. This removes all punitive power from the administrative body supposed to enforce the three-strikes rule; all it can do now is warn you that 'they're watching you.' 2) When illegal filesharing is detected, users have to prove their innocence. This is obviously contrary to the constitutional principle of presumption of innocence."
Re:right again (Score:5, Funny)
Not all p2p users are ethical. Some don't seed.
Re:Good News For Once (Score:1, Funny)
The French "Conseil Constitutionnel" is a joke compared to the US Supreme Court
Fighting urge to make jokes about the French surrendering...
So what? People stay at bat all day?? (Score:1, Funny)
The headline just jumped out at me and made me so angry that I didn't RTFS or RTFA.
So a pitcher just keeps throwing at the hitter, the hitter keeps swinging and baseball gets even more boring than it already is?!?!
Re:So what? People stay at bat all day?? (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to cricket...
Re:Good News For Once (Score:3, Funny)
An usual, when someone does not mention special cases (eg the encrypted access), the global version (all kinds of access) is assumed.
Besides, who says that "garbage data" is no "speech", when accessing the Internet is part of the freedom of speech?
So let me freely say,
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux)
(Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.)
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
Re:Stop the Presses! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:pretty good week for people (Score:1, Funny)
You're doing it wrong. The way to do it is "I'll trade you getting to avoid being speared for that hamburger."
Re:Good News For Once (Score:3, Funny)
They were in a catch-22 because the government wouldn't confirm that the plaintiffs had been wiretapped, refusing subpoenas from the plaintiffs on national security grounds, and the court wouldn't give the plaintiffs standing unless they could prove it had happened to them.
Thank goodness for the incompetence of the government, then, since the geniuses accidentally delivered transcripts of tapped phone calls to the group they had been tapping. LOL [cbsnews.com].
Re:i lost that fight (Score:3, Funny)
Since when has France moved away from the "guilty until proven innocent" stance?
Apparently, from doing the unthinkable (reading TFA), since "the Declaration of 1789". I'm going to have to go to wikipedia to see when that was passed.