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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

La Quadrature du Net is reporting that the Conseil d’État (the French Administrative Supreme Court) ruled that Hadopi’s surveillance system (operated by Arcom since 2021) is a breach of fundamental rights protected by the European Union. [laquadrature.net] The surveillance system provided companies with civil identity data, email addresses, postal addresses, and inventory of downloaded material for the user of any IP addresses implicated in copyright infringement.

Today, the Conseil d’État (the French Administrative Supreme Court) ruled [laquadrature.net] in favour of La Quadrature du Net, French Data Network [www.fdn.fr] (FDN), Franciliens.net [franciliens.net] and Fédération FDN [ffdn.org]. It recognised that Hadopi’s surveillance system (operated by Arcom since 2021) is a breach of fundamental rights protected by the European Union. As a result, it has ordered the government to repeal the core provisions of Hadopi key decree that organises the “graduated response” system. This fight against Hadopi, in which La Quadrature is involved since the first legislative debates in the National Assembly in 2009, is emblematic of the archaic view held by successive governments, both left-wing and right-wing, on the question of sharing online culture and knowledge. It is now up to the government to acknowledge the death of Hadopi and, instead of attempting to bring it back to life, to finally admit that online cultural sharing for non-commercial purposes must not be criminalised.

La Quadrature du Net started its challenge in court back in 2009 as to whether the law was actually compatible with European Union Law and human rights. The law was named after the The French Copyright Authority (HADOPI [edri.org]).

Previously:
(2026) France Keeps Breaking the Internet to Stop Piracy, Even Though It's Not Working [soylentnews.org]
(2021) France Gets a New Anti-Piracy Agency in 2022 [soylentnews.org]

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