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French file-sharing on the rise despite a change in the law

29 March 2010
By: Mark Weston | Discussion topic: Intellectual Property, Online, Online, Upload-IT, Websites

Illegal online file-sharing behaviour has increased in France by 3% since a law was passed in late 2009 (the “three-strikes law”) which allowed persistent pirates to be thrown offline. A small-scale study shows that some French people are changing their habits and getting pirated music and films from sources not covered by the law.

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