{"id":1617,"date":"2012-01-23T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:49:04","slug":"hadopi-sopa-eiffel-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/01\/hadopi-sopa-eiffel-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadopi: What SOPA looks like from the Eiffel Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the US looked a lot more like France than it usually does, thanks to the uproar caused by\u00a0SOPA<\/a> (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. San Francisco even saw<\/a> famous figures like MC Hammer and investor Ron Conway turning up to fight the cause.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile back at the ranch<\/del> in France…<\/h1>\n

Even though the Sopa bill was quickly shelved<\/a>, it was hard to ignore what was going on – especially in France where the country’s similar (but not<\/strong> identical) “Hadopi<\/a>” anti-piracy law has been also sparked a ton of controversy (and is even playing a minor role in the upcoming Presidential election, see below). But in comparison to what happened in the US last week, it may seem as though the French have hardly taken a stance to standup for internet freedom in their own country.\u00a0Certain articles<\/a> even went as far as to criticizing the French for having a “softer” reaction to their own anti-piracy law than to the American equivalent. That doesn’t seem right for the country that has practically perfected the art of protesting.
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