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French President Violates His Own Copyright Law, Again 356

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been caught violating someone's copyright again. This time, presidential services made 400 unauthorized copies of a DVD when only 50 had been made by the publisher. Mr. Sarkozy, of course, is the one pushing the HADOPI law, which would disconnect the Internet service of an alleged pirate after three allegations of infringement. This isn't the first time he's been connected to copyright violations, either. His party had to pay some €30K for using a song without authorization. If he were he subject to his own law, Mr. Sarkozy would be subject to having his Net disconnected the next time he pirates something."
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Submission + - Pirate Party wins at least one seat, possibly two (torrentfreak.com)

reeeh2000 writes: According to TorrentFreak, with half of polling stations now closed in Sweden the Pirate Party has at least one guaranteed seat in the EU Parliament. Currently the party is sitting with 7% of the vote. Depending on how the remaining districts voted, the Pirate Party could win another seat for a total of two.

Comment Re:He's probably loving it. (Score 1) 379

Wrong. Not if you're fired for "faute grave" (which is the case here, and is roughly equivalent to "gross misconduct"). Then you're not entitled to anything. At all. Plus, he's probably "blacklisted" in quite a few big companies, by now. *sigh* in spite of what most americans seem to think, France is _not_ a communist country. Not even socialist (though we do have a tad more social protection than you have in the US). And pardon my English, for I'm a frog.

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