Mon, 15 Jun 2009

Three Strikes ruled unconstitutional in France

Shortly after France brought in a three strikes rule for those allegedly downloading content in breach of copyright on the internet, it has been deemed unconstitutional by the French Constitutional Court.
Thanks to El Reg for the following:

France's constitutional court today deemed the Hadopi law illegal. Judges deemed that two parts of the legislation also nicknamed "Three Strikes" - the backers prefer "graduated response" - contravened two major areas of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, articles 5, 9 and 11.

I wonder if the out of court settlement Eircom agreed to, effecting the same punishment for alleged abuse of the internet - with equally little oversight and burden of proof required - will be deemed similarly illegal in Ireland. I very much hope so.

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