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France Wants To Tax ISPs To Fund Music, Add Streaming To Three-Strikes Law

Ingrid Lunden

Nov 21, 2011 11:01 AM

Away from the Eurozone crisis, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has come up with one way to raise more funds in his country for one struggling media sector: taxing another one that appears to be doing alright. And in a speech to other European politicians, he said he also wanted to…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Legal, Piracy, Money, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Countries, Europe, UK, France, hadopi, nicolas sarkozy, patrick zelnik, zelnik

France To Disconnect Online Pirates; DRM Restrictions Might Go

Robert Andrews

Nov 23, 2007 12:36 PM

From our sister site paidContent:UK: If US digital liberties campaigners think they’ve got it bad with an RIAA so active in lobbying digital copyright policy, wait until they hear about France’s next move. President Nicolas Sarkozy has endorsed a law creating an agency to find hardcore P2P music and movie…

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Posted In: Legal, Digital Rights Management, Technologies / Formats, P2P, Countries, Europe, France, nicolas sarkozy

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