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France - Internet piracy
Government plans to rewrite internet piracy law
Article published on the 2009-06-11 Latest update 2009-06-11 12:13 TU
French Culture Minister Christine Albanel
(Photo : AFP)
A day after France's Constitutional Council struck down a proposed law to curb internet piracy, the government said on Thursday it would draft a new version of the law which takes the ruling into account.
France's culture minister, Christine Albanel, said that in the new version of the law, a judge would be required to make the decision to cut internet access to people who repeatedly download music and film illegally. She was speaking on the radio station Europe 1.
The Court on Wednesday ruled that the current proposal was unconstitutional, which would give this cut-off power to a new state agency called Hadopi (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet).
The agency would cut off internet access to the computer of a user whom authorities had already caught and warned twice about downloadnig illegal material.
The Court said that only a judge had this authority, because, it said, "free access to public communication services on line" is a human right.
Albanel said a new version of the law would be "rapidly completed".
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