France's draft Internet piracy law

Les Echos newspaper comments on France's draft law against Internet piracy: "Of course the bill on 'Creativity and the Internet' is far from perfect. Professional swindlers will always find a way to slip through the meshes in the net. And the bill runs the risk of building up a repressive apparatus. ... In addition to the inevitable legal mistakes, parents will soon be penalised for acts committed by their children. And regarding technical bugs, it may well be that certain households will have their telephone and television cut off just because a few paltry files were exchanged. Just as the first traffic radars and alcohol tests did not immediately lower the number of road accidents, this law wil not solve all the problems at hand. But France is on the right track. In Cyberspace as on Earth, no one may ignore the law."

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