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Deutsch: Französische Regierung drängt auf Umsetzung des HADOPI-Gesetzes

No sooner has the three strikes law been adopted that the French government issued CCAPs (special administrative specifications) and CCTPs (special technical specifications) which were sent by the Ministry of Culture to the candidate enterprises to put into function the information system of HADOPI.

The call for tenders was sent since the beginning of the year even before the Hadopi law was adopted, the notification date having been set for 5 June 2009 with a deadline on 1 July 2009 for a first prototype of the graduate response system.

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Deutsch: Plattenfirmen setzen The Pirate Bay unter Druck

Macedonian: Издавачките куќи вршат притисок врз Pir...

The Swedish court has denied the request of four major record companies to fine The Pirate Bay (TPB) for being still operational.

At the middle of May 2009, Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner asked the Swedish District Court to apply penalties to the operators of TPB for every day they continue to operate the site.

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Deutsch: Britische Kreativindustrien fordern die Ausschaltung von Filesharern

An alliance of eight UK creative industries and five trade unions want the government to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to disconnect persistent alleged illegal file sharers from the Internet and have issued a set of "urgent recommendations" they want to be included in the government's Digital Britain manifesto.

The group considers that more than 50% of the net traffic in the UK is illegal content, situation which puts jobs in the creative industries at risk.

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Deutsch: Frankreich: 3 Treffer-Gesetz endgültig angenommen

After long debates, on 12 May 2009 the French deputies adopted with 296 votes against 233 the three strikes law, with very few modifications. The following day the Senate also voted the law with 189 against 14 with socialist senators having decided not to participate in the vote.

During the discussions, most of the amendments introduced by the opposition were rejected. The Internet users deemed of illegally downloaded content will have their connection cut off while continuing to pay for the service (the so called double pain).

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Deutsch: 3 Treffer-Gesetz in Frankreich – der zweite Versuch

Macedonian: Втор обид за воведување на законот Хад...

The Hadopi (or three strikes) law saga continues with the second reading of the draft law in the French National Assembly having started on 29 April 2009.

After the unexpected rejection of the text in the lower chamber on 9 April 2009, the majority came this time decided to pass the law no matter what. The pressure was mainly due to the present discussion in the European Parliament for the adoption of the Telecom Package which would put the Fr

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Deutsch: The Pirate Bay fordert die Wiederaufnahme des Prozesses aufgrund eines...
Macedonian: [Pirate Bay бара повторно судење тврдејќи...