Piracy law in France allows sites to be banned without supervision

30th December, 2010 by adina
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The National Assembly of France recently established, through a section of a bill, measures meant to allow the French government to filter sites on the Internet, previously blacklisted by the Ministry of the Interior. Thus, section 4 of the Bill Loppsi 2 allows this action without any intervention of a jury or judge and aims to reducing cybercrime and child pornography sites. Le Point says that many of such sites are hosted by countries abroad and that the Ministry of the Interior has to send its blacklist to ISPs to have these sites blocked.

There are critics of this system who believe that this approach may by error indicate innocent sites, which have no legal recourse. They also believe that the involved parties would have to go after the real creators of illegal pornography instead of blocking their sites. In extreme cases, unscrupulous politicians could even go to block political enemies like, for example, Wikileaks, or other parties with dissenting options.

It is not the first time France has declared to have a piracy problem, but even tougher laws were unsuccessful. The three-strike law named Hadopi has failed to curb illegal downloads and has even pushed the most committed downloaders to adopt alternative methods. This law allows the permanent disconnection from the Internet of those users who have received a third notice.


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