New French Internet Termination Law: Judges Will Get Five Minutes To Rule
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
France voted against internet termination based on accusations, then for, then against 
before finally throwing the law out on constitutional grounds. Now Techdirt reports that French president Sarkozy is trying to resurrect the law and the whole “judge must decide” issue … “it creates a special “fast track” for such cases, whereby a judge would be given a grand total of five minutes to decide such cases. Yes, you see, free society (which Sarkozy insists he’s defending) apparently doesn’t involve giving a judge ample time to consider whether or not it makes sense to completely cut someone off from the internet” Sarkozy himself was recently caught violating copyright where he initially offered $1 compensation to the artist.
