Wednesday, March 08, 2006

French Government Blocks Move to Legalize Internet Downloading

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

French government attempts to stop Internet users downloading music and movies ratcheted up a notch when Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy blasted the widespread practice as "theft".

His blunt appraisal, made after a meeting with several well-known French singers and musicians, came as the parliament debated a government bill that would punish anybody who broke copyright on digital works available on the Internet, CDs and DVDs.

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