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| Oct 11, 2023 | Anti-Piracy Agency Credited With BitTorrent Victory, IPTV & Streaming Take on Both | With millions of monthly users, BitTorrent’s reign at the top of the file-sharing seemed unstoppable in 2007, but the French government had other plans.
Presented to the Senate in June 2008, what would later become France’s Hadopi law envis... |
| Sep 13, 2023 | French watchdog temporarily halts iPhone 12 sales over radiation levels | Just a few hours after Apple unveiled the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, France’s radiation watchdog (ANFR) released a public statement announcing that the iPhone 12 breaches radiation levels. The watchdog notified Apple of the findings and t... |
| Jan 3, 2023 | A French Perspective on Elon Musk’s Twitter | A lot has happened since Elon Musk made a sensational entrance in Twitter headquarters by carrying a sink. As soon as Musk took control of Twitter on Oct. 28, he fired a large part of the company’s workforce and launched a $7.99 pay-for-pla... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Google Removes Hundreds of Domains to Aid French Sports Piracy Crackdown | At the start of this year, a French bill went into effect that sanctioned the formation of a new regulatory body.
The old HADOPI anti-piracy outfit merged with the Higher Audiovisual Council, creating the Audiovisual and Digital Communicati... |
| May 18, 2022 | Shadow announces premium plan for its cloud gaming service | It’s been a year since Octave Klaba, the founder of OVHcloud, acquired Shadow following a commercial court order. After a stabilizing period, the company is now ready to launch a new plan, a new service and a new B2B offering.
Shadow is a c... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | BeIN First to Use New Anti-Piracy Law to Block 18 Pirate Streaming Sites | For many years there have been established processes for removing infringing content and links to infringing content from the internet. The US is famous for its DMCA legislation, for example, and EU countries have similar rules in place.
At... |
| Jul 5, 2021 | Stream-Ripping Can be Perfectly Legal, French Ministry of Culture Says | Free music is easy to find nowadays. Just head over to YouTube and you can find millions of tracks including many of the most recent releases.
While the music industry profits from the advertisements on many of these videos, it doesn’t like... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud founder | Blade, the French startup behind cloud gaming service Shadow, has been acquired by Octave Klaba’s fund following a commercial court order. Klaba is better known as the founder of OVHcloud, a French cloud hosting company. He’s acquiring Blad... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | France Plans To Repeat Hadopi's Costly Mistakes By Turning It Into An Even Bigger, Even More Wrong-headed Anti-Piracy Body Called Arcom | Techdirt covered the story of France’s “three strikes” law, later known as Hadopi, from the body overseeing it, for over ten years. What became a long-running farce eventually cost French taxpayers €82 million, and generated just €87,000 in... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | France Plans To Repeat Hadopi's Costly Mistakes By Turning It Into An Even Bigger, Even More Wrong-headed Anti-Piracy Body Called Arcom | Techdirt covered the story of France's "three strikes" law, later known as Hadopi, from the body overseeing it, for over ten years. What became a long-running farce eventually cost French taxpayers €82 million, and generated ... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Driven Mad By Its Hatred For Big US Internet Companies, French Government Implements EU Digital Services Act Before It Even Exists | The future Digital Services Act (DSA), dealing with intermediary liability in the EU, is likely to be one of the region's most important new laws for the online world. At the moment, the DSA exists only as a proposal from the European ... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Driven Mad By Its Hatred For Big US Internet Companies, French Government Implements EU Digital Services Act Before It Even Exists | The future Digital Services Act (DSA), dealing with intermediary liability in the EU, is likely to be one of the region’s most important new laws for the online world. At the moment, the DSA exists only as a proposal from the European Commi... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | In 10 Years Of Existence, The Long-Running French Farce Known As Hadopi Has Imposed Just €87,000 In Fines, But Cost Taxpayers €82 Million | The French anti-piracy framework known as Hadopi began as tragedy and soon turned into farce. It was tragic that so much energy was wasted on putting together a system that was designed to throw ordinary users off the Internet — the infamou... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | In 10 Years Of Existence, The Long-Running French Farce Known As Hadopi Has Imposed Just €87,000 In Fines, But Cost Taxpayers €82 Million | The French anti-piracy framework known as Hadopi began as tragedy and soon turned into farce. It was tragic that so much energy was wasted on putting together a system that was designed to throw ordinary users off the Internet -- the infamo... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | French Anti-Piracy Agency Generated €87,000 in Fines From €82m in Public Funding | Just over a decade ago, France stepped forward with a grand project to tackle the millions of individuals downloading content via peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent.
In 2010, via newly-formed government agency Hadopi (High Authority f... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | What’s Going on With France’s Online Hate Speech Law? | In mid-May, France adopted a new law aimed at overhauling the online speech landscape in the country. The French constitutional court hollowed out the bill last week, dinging the overwhelming majority of it as unconstitutional.
On May 13, F... |
| Mar 5, 2020 | French ISPs Block Dozens of Pirate Sites Following Movie Industry Action | In common with at least 30 countries all around the world, France is becoming ever more receptive of site-blocking as a means to mitigate copyright infringement.
France has been blocking ‘pirate’ sites for more than five years on behalf of ... |
| Jan 9, 2020 | Pro-privacy search engine Qwant announces more exec changes — to ‘switch focus to monetization’ | More changes have been announced in the senior leadership of French pro-privacy search engine Qwant.
President and co-founder Eric Leandri (pictured above) will be moving from an operational to a strategic role on January 15, the company sa... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | Anybody can now make HomeKit accessories | Apple has released an open-source version of the HomeKit Accessory Development Kit. You can now fork it on GitHub and play around with it to integrate smart home devices in the Home app and beyond.
Today’s news is related to the Connected H... |
| Nov 22, 2019 | French Court Orders ISPs to Block Torrent Sites and File-Hosters | Pirate site-blocking has become a prime measure for the entertainment industries to target pirate sites on the Internet.
The practice has been around for over a decade and has gradually expanded to more than 30 countries around the world.
T... |
| Jul 10, 2019 | Politicians Queue Up To Make France's Proposed Law Against 'Hateful Content' Far, Far Worse | The intent behind “ag-gag” laws is pretty evident. The aim is to prevent the general public learning about unsatisfactory or downright cruel conditions in which animals are kept by some farmers. Techdirt has been reporting on them for a num... |
| Jul 10, 2019 | Politicians Queue Up To Make France's Proposed Law Against 'Hateful Content' Far, Far Worse | The intent behind "ag-gag" laws is pretty evident. The aim is to prevent the general public learning about unsatisfactory or downright cruel conditions in which animals are kept by some farmers. Techdirt has been reporting on them... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Twitter reverses stance and allows ad encouraging you to vote in France | Political ads on social networks have become a lot more complicated in France after the French parliament passed the so-called “fake news law” in late 2018. But the French government didn’t expect Twitter to refuse an ad telling you to regi... |
| Mar 31, 2019 | French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen | By offering free access to millions of ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is often described as “The Pirate Bay of Science”.
The site is used by researchers from all over the world, to access papers they otherwise have a hard time accessi... |
| Mar 29, 2019 | France Plans to Add ‘Article 13’ to New Anti-Piracy Law This Summer | The European Parliament sent a clear signal this week when it adopted the Copyright Directive.
While some MEPs state that they mistakenly pushed the wrong button on the close vote to allow changes to the text, the ultimate vote was clear.
W... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | France’s tax on tech giants is happening | Is it happening? Is it not happening? After years of back and forth, it looks like the new tax on tech giants in France is about to become a law. Big tech companies that generate significant revenue in France will be taxed on their revenue ... |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Watch Nvidia unveil the RTX 2080 live right here | Nvidia is taking advantage of the Gamescom in Germany to hold a press conference about its future graphics processing units. The conference will start at 6 PM in Germany, 12 PM in New York, 9 AM in San Francisco.
Just a week after the compa... |
| Jul 28, 2018 | How I made my own WireGuard VPN server | Some of you may have heard about VPN protocols that let you establish a connection between your device and a server, such as OpenVPN and IPsec. But there’s a brand new shiny protocol that promises to be faster and more secure at the same ti... |
| May 15, 2018 | Canal+ gives up on its cable box, switches to Apple TV | French premium cable television company Canal+ is slowly moving away from building its own set top boxes. As Next INpact spotted, you can now subscribe to Canal+ and get an Apple TV 4K with Canal+’s myCanal app already preloaded.
Canal+ has... |
| Mar 29, 2018 | France wants to become an artificial intelligence hub | Emmanuel Macron and his government are launching a big initiative around artificial intelligence today. They want to turn France into one of the leading countries when it comes to artificial intelligence.
“[Artificial intelligence] is a tec... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | Archos announces a cryptocurrency hardware wallet (yes, Archos) | Remember Archos? Yes, that Archos, the company that made portable multimedia players (PMPs) with below average touch screen ten years ago. The company is still around, selling cheap Android phones, cheap tablets, cheap drones and more.
And ... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Next INpact launches a browser extension to see who is tracking you online | French tech media company Next INpact just launched an interesting project today. Kimetrak is a simple browser extension that lets you see how your favorite website is tracking you and selling your privacy.
The upcoming ePrivacy and GDPR re... |
| Dec 23, 2017 | Might Google Class “Torrent” a Dirty Word? France is About to Find Out | Like most countries, France is struggling to find ways to stop online piracy running rampant. A number of options have been tested thus far, with varying results.
One of the more interesting cases has been running since 2015, when music ind... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Shadow upgrades its cloud computer for gamers and opens signups to everyone | French startup Blade, the company behind Shadow, announced at a press conference that it is launching new offers, updating specifications and the ability to become a client and buy a subscription without any waiting list.
Shadow is a gaming... |
| Oct 28, 2017 | Anti-Piracy Outfit Behind ‘Pirate’ Site Reincarnations | Last November, the cybercrime unit of the French military police shut down the country’s largest pirate site, Zone-Telechargement (Download Zone). This was a huge problem for the millions of people who visited the site on a daily basis.
Fou... |
| Oct 18, 2017 | Google Asked to Delist Pirate Movie Sites, ISPs Asked to Block Them | After seizing several servers operated by popular private music tracker What.cd, last November French police went after a much bigger target.
Boasting millions of regular visitors, Zone-Telechargement (Zone-Download) was ranked the 11th mos... |
| Sep 21, 2017 | Google Signs Agreement to Tackle YouTube Piracy | Once upon a time, people complaining about piracy would point to the hundreds of piracy sites around the Internet. These days, criticism is just as likely to be leveled at Google-owned services.
YouTube, in particular, has come in for inten... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Trainline now gives you real-time train information in France | Trainline’s European service (formerly known as Captain Train) is becoming your one-stop shop for French trains. The company has partnered with SNCF to get real-time data about trains, delays and your current location. You had to use SNCF’s... |
| Jun 27, 2017 | T411, France’s Most-Visited Torrent Site, Has Been Shut Down | As the number one torrent site among French speakers and one of the most popular sites in France, T411’s rise to stardom is the product of more than a decade of twists and turns.
After a prolonged battle against 31 Canadian media organizati... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | Tax Authority Grilled VLC Player Over Link From a Torrent Site | VideoLAN’s VLC Media Player(*) is installed on hundreds of millions of devices around the world.
It’s widely regarded as the best tool to play videos and audio in just about any format. When something can’t be played, VLC Media Player almos... |
| Dec 12, 2016 | Court Orders French ISPs to Block (Dead) Torrent Sites | Blocking pirate sites has become a common tool for copyright holders to address piracy concerns, especially in Europe.
This is also true in France, where The Pirate Bay was one of the first targets two years ago, but not the last.
This week... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Court: Google and Bing Don’t Have to Censor “Torrent” Searches | For years, entertainment industry groups have been demanding that search engines do something about “pirate sites” showing up in their search results.
In France, this prompted music industry group SNEP to take the matter to court. Represent... |
| May 2, 2016 | National Assembly ‘Kills’ French Three-Strikes Anti Piracy Law | In recent years many anti-piracy initiatives have emerged and in several countries so-called “graduated response” schemes have been implemented.
France is seen as the pioneer of so-called “three strikes” anti-piracy legislation, in which re... |
| Sep 17, 2015 | Hadopi Reports on Five Years of “Three Strikes” Piracy Measures | In the latter years of the previous decade a new idea for dealing with piracy was gathering momentum. Known as “three strikes” or “graduated response”, the system was based on the understanding that pirates could be persuaded to change thei... |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Paypal, Visa and MasterCard Discuss ‘Pirate Site’ Blacklist | Following the failed introduction of SOPA in the United States, movie studios and record labels are exploring alternative means to achieve the same goals.
The entertainment industries are lobbying the public and private sector to come to th... |
| Jul 20, 2015 | French Anti-Piracy Regime Breaks 5 Million Warning Barrier | While site-blocking currently grabs most of the headlines as a key anti-piracy strategy of the entertainment industries, the so-called “graduated response” is still considered a valuable tool for reducing infringing activity online.
Also kn... |
| Jun 30, 2015 | French Magazine Fined €10,000 For Encouraging Piracy | Last summer the bimonthly computer magazine “Téléchargement,” French for “Download,” released an issue documenting the various ways people can pirate films, TV-shows, games and music on the Internet.
The cover featured a pirate skull and ad... |
| Jun 8, 2015 | French Lower House Might Let Google Keep Its Search Algorithm Workings Secret After All | French politicians may not be going on a vendetta against Google after all. In April, the French Senate voted two very tough amendments aimed at Google. Part of Emmanuel Macron‘s economy bill, these amendments were supposed to force the tec... |
| Apr 11, 2015 | Sentenced to Jail, Warez Operator Faces $30m Damages Claim | Every year the RIAA and MPAA submit their overviews of so-called “notorious markets” to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). Sites detailed in these reports are branded “rogue”, a label reserved for the supposed worst-of-the-wo... |
| Feb 23, 2015 | Torrent Site Admin Can Pay Piracy Fine…in 227 Years | After opening its doors in 2010, in 2014 a private tracker known as GKS announced it would be closing for good. As is so often the case, the site was suffering legal problems.
An investigation, carried out on behalf of U.S.-based mainstream... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Court Orders French ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay | Hounded by copyright holders all around the world for a decade, somehow The Pirate Bay manages to stay afloat. Today the site is doing as well as ever, despite the jailing of the now-famous individuals behind the project.
Faced with an adve... |
| Sep 25, 2014 | Ecommerce in France expected to reach 60 billion euros this year | The growth of the ecommerce industry in France is now less strong than it was a few years ago, but this does not prevent the industry from setting new records quarter after quarter. Between April and June this year, the Fédération E-commerc... |
| Sep 15, 2014 | Netflix Is Available In France, But It Still Needs Work | French readers, Netflix is here! But don’t get too excited; it’s an imperfect launch. After an astute media campaign to put Netflix under the spotlight, the unlimited movie and TV show streaming service is available for everyone to see. And... |
| May 15, 2014 | Music Industry Demands Pirate Bay Blockade in France | The Pirate Bay is without doubt one of the most censored websites on the Internet.
Courts all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, and this list continues to expand.
Today, news br... |
| May 12, 2014 | Hadopi Recommends Super Injunctions to Keep Pirate Content Down | For an extended period anti-piracy agency HADOPI stayed in the news due to its responsibility for maintaining France’s controversial three-strikes anti-piracy scheme. While many of the big headlines have subsided, the authority is still tas... |
| PeerTube | PeerTube это некоммерческая децентрализованная видеоплатформа с открытым исходным кодом, работающая на базе технологий ActivityPub и WebTorrent, благодаря крайней из которых при просмотре видео снижается нагрузка на отдельные серверы.
Видео... |
| BeIN First to Use New Anti-Piracy Law to Block 18 Pirate Streaming Sites | For many years there have been established processes for removing infringing content and links to infringing content from the internet. The US is famous for its DMCA legislation, for example, and EU countries have similar rules in place.
At... |
