[Infowarrior] - France will cut funding to its piracy police

[Richard Forno]

Aug 3, 2012 - 7:00AM

France will cut funding to its piracy police

	• By Robert Andrews
	
France’s Hadopi piracy agency has warned hundreds of thousands accused of piracy. But it’s become frowned upon by the country’s new government. First step in reform is to cut the agency’s budget.

France’s new culture minister is not yet promising to disband the country’s internet piracy enforcement agency, Hadopi. But she already is already planning to cut its budget and to dissuade it from kicking people off the internet.

Aurélie Filippetti has commissioned former Canal+ pay-TV CEO Pierre Lescure to lead a wide-ranging and overdue review to update Act II of France’s so-called “cultural exception” – a set of rules for protecting Francophone culture – for the digital age, including the role of Hadopi.

Geeks are reading indications by the new Francois Hollande government as suggesting an axe for the agency, which was formed in October 2012 to send warning letters to ISP subscribers deemed to by rightsholders to be downloading content without authorisation.

Filipetti, in an interview with La Nouvelle Observateur, only goes as far as promising to underfund Hadopi:

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