The French Constitutional Council, rejected a bill that sought to create a legal entity not to cut Internet access to those who were caught illegally downloading content.
The board considered today that the Internet is a part of the right to freedom of expression and consumption "and stressed that" in French, is the presumption of innocence that prevails, while the justice to decide which penalty to apply in every case of piracy.
The bill - approved last month by the majority of the UPM in the French Parliament with the opposition of the Socialists - provided a system for monitoring traffic on the Internet. Who was caught the pirate received a notice by e-mail.
If the practice continued, followed by a second warning, this time by letter. If you do not stop to illegal downloads, Internet access would be cut for a period up to one year. The fee for the connection, however, would continue to be paid.
The bill resulted from an agreement between the holders of copyright and the providers of Internet access from the start and had the support of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The system involved the creation of an entity called rendition Hadopi (name that was also called the law) and, in partnership with providers of Internet access, would be responsible for implementing the measure. One of the objectives of the project was to ensure that small cases of piracy have to be necessarily resolved in the bureaucracy of the courts.
Many advocates of civil rights groups have been strongly critical of the measure, to raise problems of privacy and not just wait for a court to consider you guilty for cutting access.
The French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel, has responded and stated that the project should be rewritten - but without the possibility of cutting off the access, it will lose strength.
Albanel had two years ago emphasized the importance of finding a system that would allow the small decriminalized piracy.
The board considered today that the Internet is a part of the right to freedom of expression and consumption "and stressed that" in French, is the presumption of innocence that prevails, while the justice to decide which penalty to apply in every case of piracy.
The bill - approved last month by the majority of the UPM in the French Parliament with the opposition of the Socialists - provided a system for monitoring traffic on the Internet. Who was caught the pirate received a notice by e-mail.
If the practice continued, followed by a second warning, this time by letter. If you do not stop to illegal downloads, Internet access would be cut for a period up to one year. The fee for the connection, however, would continue to be paid.
The bill resulted from an agreement between the holders of copyright and the providers of Internet access from the start and had the support of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The system involved the creation of an entity called rendition Hadopi (name that was also called the law) and, in partnership with providers of Internet access, would be responsible for implementing the measure. One of the objectives of the project was to ensure that small cases of piracy have to be necessarily resolved in the bureaucracy of the courts.
Many advocates of civil rights groups have been strongly critical of the measure, to raise problems of privacy and not just wait for a court to consider you guilty for cutting access.
The French Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel, has responded and stated that the project should be rewritten - but without the possibility of cutting off the access, it will lose strength.
Albanel had two years ago emphasized the importance of finding a system that would allow the small decriminalized piracy.
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