[x-pubpol] Fwd: NYT: Copyright Cheats Face the Music in France

[Joly MacFie]

Things are heating up as an election approaches. Surveys show that
HADOPI has succeeded in driving users to pay services, possibly partly
because of their general rise in popularity during the same period.
There's no comparison with figures from non-HADOPI markets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/technology/20iht-piracy20.html

> To Mr. Sarkozy’s right, the leader of the National Front, Marine Le
> Pen, says she would scrap the law and replace it with a so-called
> global license, under which consumers would be free to share content
> and artists would be remunerated in other ways, perhaps with revenue
> from new taxes.
>
> On the left, the Socialist Party’s nominee for president, François
> Hollande, also opposes Hadopi.
>
> “We think it is ineffective, obsolete and built on false logic,” said
> Aurélie Filippetti, a Socialist member of the National Assembly who
> serves as Mr. Hollande’s spokeswoman on cultural matters.
>
> The Socialists, some of whom previously championed the global license,
> backed away from it once Ms. Le Pen took it up. Ms. Filippetti said,
> however, that there could still be a role for new taxes on Internet
> service providers, search engines or other Internet companies, with
> the proceeds being distributed to artists. Mr. Hollande also wants a
> tougher crackdown on sites that enable copying, and a push to develop
> better legal digital content offers, she said.
>
> Mr. Sarkozy, who announced his candidacy for re-election last week, is
> sticking to his guns, saying he would try to strengthen Hadopi, giving
> it more power to crack down on unauthorized streaming and other new
> forms of piracy.

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