Dardoz gets stuck in

Last Thursday, a French appeal court made a an epic ruling which could set a predecent the file-sharing that neither the file-sharing or Anti file-sharing lobbyists could have foreseen. The French Court of Appeal of Montpellier ruled in favour of a 22 year old man who had downloaded almost 500 movies online. He didn’t stop at this. He burned them onto CD’s and shared them with his friends.

The court’s decision was based on the French Law “article L-122-5″ which states:

“Authors can’t forbid copies or reproductions that are only intented for the private use of the copyist.”
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