MUMBAI: There is news that the debate over a new version of France‘s controversial anti-piracy legislation began in the lower house of parliament yesterday but it is learnt that legislators won‘t vote until September.
France‘s Constitutional Council had deemed a previous version of the Creation and Internet bill to be unconstitutional because it enabled a new state agency, Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet to cut off the web access of anyone who after two warnings , continued to download illegal content. The revised bill puts the fate of three-time offenders in the hands of a judge.
The new version will be debated by legislators in the National Assembly all of this week, but a vote won‘t occur until after lawmakers return from their summer recess in September.
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