French 3 Strikes: Court Fines First File-Sharer, Even Though He’s Innocent
Found on TorrentFreak on Thursday, 13 September 2012
After his account was connected to a series of previous infringements, a 40 year-old man was summoned to court today. Despite a third-party admitting that the music piracy in question was carried out by them and not the accused, the court still decided to fine the account holder.
According to the Hadopi law it doesn’t matter that the man didn’t carry out the infringements himself – as the owner of the Internet connection in question he is responsible for what happens on it.
I must have missed the case where the previous french president was in front of this court; after all, there have been numerous occasions where the top of the french government should have received warnings and in the end a invitation from the judge. Not much égalité in France.