(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar)
The French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, considered in December 2006 that there should be no prison for those downloading only a few works from the Internet. However, just a couple of weeks after this statement an Internet user was condemned by a French court to imprisonment for having downloaded movies from the Internet.
"Prison for Internet users is over" was the statement of the Minister of Culture.
Howeve, on 11 January 2007 in Nantes, an Internet user was sentenced to two months of imprisonment and payment of damages - 10 euro/film to SEV (Video Editor Union) and the national film federation.
As a clarification to the DADVSI law, a letter from the Ministry of Justice was to be issued to all prosecutors to adapt their judgements on the basis of the severity of the copyright infringement in order to avoid imprisonment for little P2P pirates and apply this punishment only to severe crimes. So far, this seems to be ignored by French prosecutors.
The little pirates will not go to jail (only in French, 26.12.2006)
http://www.01net.com/editorial/336549/droit/les-petits-pirates-ne-pass...
Prison for Internet users is really not over ! (only in French, 12.01.2007)
http://www.ratiatum.com/breve4163_La_prison_pour_les_internautes_c_est...