[ga] French Assembly Rejects Three Strikes Bill

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well it appears that JFC will get a reprive after all..  Sarkozy's
rule is rebuffed and liberty is restored however temporarely for
the Internet in France.  Vive le France!  Yes we Frenchmen can!

See: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/04/09/1235235

The French Assembly has
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/04/09/le-parlement-rejette-le-projet-de-loi-creation-et-internet_1178838_651865.html#ens_id=1162478

rejected the Three Strikes bill (in French!) which would allow ISPs to
cut off
users found to have been downloading protected content after two
warnings. Summary: the Sarkozy administration can go back with a new
draft for
approval by both chambers or try to get upper house approval of a softer

version without the cutoff passed by the lower house."

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