Pirate is off the hook

[bazooka]

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/french.html

Court's Acquit French Movie 'Pirate'

By Jon Newton 3/12/05

In yet another bitter defeat for the Big Seven movie studio cartel, two French courts have confirmed that downloading a movie file for personal use is acceptable.

A man accused of downloading 500 film and music files has been acquitted by the Montpellier Court of Appeals in the south of France, confirming an earlier ruling by a bankruptcy court in Rodez in October last year, says Belgium's Le Vie du Net.

The court said once a work has been made public, it can be copied for personal use.


Jon Newton

The plaintiff admitted lending CDs made from his copies to friends. But this still fell within the concept of ‘personal use,’ the court ruled.

The man’s lawyers argued the CDs had already been bought and paid for before they appeared online.

Unhappy with the bankruptcy court’s decision and siding with the entertainment industry, the French government, , had demanded that the man be fined e5.000, more than $6,730.

The studios' MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is currently trying to stop movies from appearing online by shutting down BitTorrent sites.

[AlecWest]

Whoa. This kind-of makes the "non-decision" on AllOfMP3.com seem pale by comparison. Of course, this is a personal use issue vs. profit-making endeavor. Still, this could have a chilling effect on the MPAA. French P2P users will be flocking online to grab their favorite movie.

[ViRaL1]

They'll focus more on uploaders now.

[SquirrelDip]

And the saga continues... Shut something down and something new crops up - I see eXeem is getting quite a following...

[pyrate83]

I thought I was the one off the hook when I saw the title of the thread.

[the bomb]

Didn't they spell your name wrong?

[pyrate83]

Didn't they spell your name wrong?

Or right?

[reboot]

And the saga continues... Shut something down and something new crops up - I see eXeem is getting quite a following...

No thanks to the Cydoor crap in the program... eXeemlite

[bazooka]

And the saga continues... Shut something down and something new crops up - I see eXeem is getting quite a following...

No thanks to the Cydoor crap in the program... eXeemlite

I guess you haven't heard.

Exeem is now spyware free and exeem lite is no longer being developed.

[reboot]

I suppose anything is possible. I haven't used either in awhile.