France pushes ahead with 'three strikes' internet law
News French lawmakers have passed an amended version of the Hadopi legislation that calls for persistent file-sharers to be cut off from the internet. In May, the parliament approved a similar law that would have created a government agency called...
[September 16, 2009, 16:54]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog Comment What a coincidence - France passed Hadopi today.
[May 12, 2009, 19:15]
EC: New net-neutrality law is unnecessary
News The Commission was reacting to the French Constitutional Court's ruling that Hadopi — the so-called 'three-strikes' anti-piracy law that would force ISPs to cut off persistent file-sharers of copyrighted material — is unenforcable.
[June 12, 2009, 16:17]
Filesharing and bilesharing: a 'three-strikes' rant
Blog So, basically a UK version of Sarkozy's beloved Hadopi/'three strikes' law, which was rejected by French parliamentarians but is coming back, zombie-style, for a second shot. The UK Film Council and other luminaries of the creative industries have...
[May 12, 2009, 12:43]
ISP threat letters have 'positive effect', says Ofcom
Blog This is similar to the first stage of Sarkozy's 'three-strikes' approach, which culminated in the user being disconnected (Sarkozy's Hadopi law was, however, recently deemed unenforceable by the French constitutional court).
[June 25, 2009, 14:48]
Net-neutrality clause likely to delay telecoms reform
News The clause in question, numbered 138/46, is widely seen as a way of stopping so-called "three-strikes" legislation, such as the Hadopi bill that the French parliament rejected last month but will reconsider on 12 May.
[May 7, 2009, 12:16]
France passes controversial antipiracy bill
News The legislation essentially creates a new government agency known as HADOPI the Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet), which will be tasked with sending notices to illegal file sharers.
[May 13, 2009, 11:06]
File-sharers face £50k fine, possible disconnection
News A Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) spokesman said at the briefing that to call the process 'three strikes' — a term that derives from France's Hadopi law, but that has been widely used to describe such processes — "misunderstands the...
[November 20, 2009, 9:38]
Karoo changes file-sharer disconnection policies
Blog In France, President Sarkozy's 'three-strikes' Hadopi bill was deemed unenforceable by the constitutional court in June, prompting the European Commission to say that new net-neutrality legislation was rendered unnecessary by member states...
[July 24, 2009, 16:35]
EU consumer groups, ISPs plead for net neutrality
News The amendment would make it impossible for governments to force ISPs to disconnect people from the internet for unlawfully sharing copyrighted material — an approach promoted by the French government's Hadopi law and also put forward in August by...
[October 20, 2009, 14:16]
EU lawmakers vote to introduce net neutrality
News The digital rights campaigning group La Quadrature du Net said in a statement on Wednesday that the voting through of the Telecoms Package, including amendment 138/46, was "the final blow against three-strikes laws such as Nicolas Sarkozy's Hadopi...
[May 6, 2009, 17:10]
