A French “three strikes” plan for digital piracy is getting its second chance.As expected, the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy last week revived a proposal to crack down on online piracy by cutting off the Internet connections of people who ignored two warnings to stop unauthorized downloads of copyrighted movies and music.Even though some members of the governing UMP party remain vocal in their opposition to the plan, passage appears likely, given the party’s strong parliamentary majority. Still, last month UMP suffered an embarrassment when several lawmakers from the Socialist opposition sneaked into a nearly empty National Assembly at the last moment to outnumber the handful of supporters in the chamber.
http://nytimes.com/2009/05/04/technology/internet/04iht-net.html
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