“The French courts have ruled that using peer-to-peer networks (P2P), providing you are doing so for personal rather than commercial reasons, is legal.”

Interesting to read the comments on Digg. Ranging from “I’m packing my bags, see you in France” to “Pretty obviously good choice for them. They know that they’ll gain much more in stealing from foreign (mainly US) content providers …”.

But do they all know that each time somebody buys an iPod or a blank CD, we do pay a tax that goes into the pockets of “the content providers”?

Soon we’ll pay such a tax on our ISP fee too! So fair enough…

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