French Court - File-Sharer's IP Addresses Were Illegally Obtained, Conviction Overturned
Date : 2008 07 07 Category : Web News
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A French Court of Appeals judge looked at the convictions of two file-sharers and canceled the rulings because the IP addresses were illegally obtained. The news very likely comes as a major blow to the French record labels and employed anti-piracy outfits.
France has been in the headlines for a while over the "Three Strike" proposal for copyright infringement. While the moves to get such a rule in place have reached international headlines, there appears to be some news that may point to some consumer positive moves happening from within the country as well.
The news (French) comes from late last week on a French news site 01net (Google Translation) The report says (via Google translation), "the Court of Appeal of Rennes found that the sworn officers of the Sacem and the SCPP (1) had collected the IP addresses of Internet users suspected of Piracy in an unlawful manner, because without the prior approval of the Cnil.