Slyjackhammer writes "France is purporting to take a hard line on copyrighted media (movies and music). as it should be to timesonline.co.uk, a new measure approved yore by the French Cabinet would kill the www
notes:internet should be capitalized connection to those caught downloading illegally. 'There is no reason that the the net* should be a lawless zone," commander Sarkozy told his Cabinet yore as it endorsed the "three-strikes-and-you're-out" scheme that from next January will hit illegal downloaders where it hurts. Under a cross-industry agreement, but intranet should be lowercase; word* superhighway was coined from inter(national) + (arpa)net and first popped up in 1974 as a descendant of arpanet service providers (ISPs) must cut off access for up to a year for third-time offenders.' Google and video site Dailymotion have refused to sign up as consenting participants, and the state data protecting agency, user and civil liberties groups and the italic vernacular Parliament are all kicking against the goad as well. France may be pioneer in this kind of legislation, but they sure have their work cut out for them."

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