All posts in Hadopi
Apple, Google, Amazon & Netflix in France’s radar with new smartphone/tablet tax
François Hollande will receive a report today resulting from nine months of studying how the digital economy can contribute to cultural funding in France. This report will detail a plan to add a tax on smartphones and tablets, a tax which will go to pay for art & culture in France -whether it be keeping […]
Hadopi rears its ugly head as 2013 brings a huge jump in warning emails
As France’s digital, media and entertainment sectors await the government’s report laying out policy recommendations for tackling online piracy, the ‘Haute Authorité’, responsible for implementing Hadopi, has taken a more aggressive approach in recent months. According to Numerama, warning emails have jumped dramatically in since the beginning of the year. The last time the Haute […]
Pussyfooting around Hadopi, the French ACTA law
Hadopi has been described and debated at length and is in a nutshell a little French ACTA[FR]. The socialist party, from which the new French president Francois Hollande came, had stated in its program as a party that Hadopi would be scrapped. Then, when Hollande won his party’s primaries, he didn’t feel too bound by […]
Hadopi may be dead as soon as September 2012
In the beginning of the month, Minister of Culture Aurelie Filippetti announced that Hadopi, the anti-pirating law introduced in France in 2009, will have its 2013 budget rethought when it comes up for discussion in 2013 – until then, it will be able to eat up its €11.1M annual budget for 2012. This announcement comes […]
Hadopi: What SOPA looks like from the Eiffel Tower
Last week, the US looked a lot more like France than it usually does, thanks to the uproar caused by SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). I probably don’t need to remind anyone reading this that the internet was flooded with the protesting voices of companies like Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and more against the would-be anti-piracy law. […]