Submission + - French plan to cut off pirates and DRM
An anonymous reader writes: In a plan to cut down on the number of French pirates President Niclas Sarkozy is endorsing a new law that will give a 3 strike rule and will open up individual downloads to all players.
Under the proposed law an enforcement body would collect information from ISP about high volume users. You would initially get a warning but after that your account would be suspended and if additional warning terminated. On the other side all music downloaded from various stores would have thier DRM protection removed and movies would be released to DVD 6 months after thier initial cinema screening instead of the current 7 1/2 months.
Needless to say there is some opposition, such as deputies of the presidents party who said that giving the enforcement agency judicial powers "creates a truly exceptional jurisdiction for downloaders contravening the principle of equality before the law".
Under the proposed law an enforcement body would collect information from ISP about high volume users. You would initially get a warning but after that your account would be suspended and if additional warning terminated. On the other side all music downloaded from various stores would have thier DRM protection removed and movies would be released to DVD 6 months after thier initial cinema screening instead of the current 7 1/2 months.
Needless to say there is some opposition, such as deputies of the presidents party who said that giving the enforcement agency judicial powers "creates a truly exceptional jurisdiction for downloaders contravening the principle of equality before the law".