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Hadopi law has been quickly promulgated by the french government, who thinks for more than two years that the less a law is politically and economically viable, the more faster it must be applied.

The content of this repressive law has been emptied by the Constitutional Council, then the Hadopi law without the graduated response becomes a monitoring and spam machine will nevertheless run and give power to justice authorities.

The question of justice independence just remains.
Could they act smoothly ? while this administrative authority will be the point of denunciations of a political nature ?

Should we not fear that business related to download could become a priority, under the pressure of the executive corp and its privileged proximity to the lobbies ?

A new project Hadopi 2 regarding the legal sanctions should be submitted by the Council of Ministers in the coming weeks.

The blindness of the government to reject any other solution in the framework of a democratic debate and the collusion between the government and the lobbies, show the importance of civic vigilance more than ever.

We can only deplore this obstinacy.
Without extended ourself longer about the slap inflicted by the Constitutional Council to this bad scheme, the government has lost an amazing opportunity to rethink Culture and Creation in the new digital internet space.

We are looking at a worrying division of a part of the art world and its audience and we are sad about this, we understand that division, because it is legitimate for artists to expect for a fee, but the audience should have free access to Culture too.

We regret that the government only concern is the violation of copyright and protection of intellectual property that should be reconsidered, when common sense urged everybody to seek for new ways.

While the government would have been legitimate to support a global unique cultural movement concerning new technologies, it gives weapons to dig the hole already dug by the Majors companies, and gives the death to themself and to the culture industry as well.

Common Realese to both Pirate Parties.

The decision of the French Constitutional Council of the last June 10 was one more victory for digital freedoms, after the election of the first Pirate Parliament Euro-deputy.

Censorship of the principle of graduated response by the Constitutional Council was intelligent decision.
This decision is from our point of view legitimate and justified.
By upholding the appeal filed against the law “Creation and Internet”, the Constitutional Council reinforces many of our convictions.

Indeed, the privacy is at the heart of the concerns of the Pirate Party.
Monitoring of Internet connections is a breach of human rights and citizens, especially the universal right to expression and communication. Communicating is a vector of development for all and should be accessible to everyone and it can deprive citizens without solid legal basis.
History has shown that botched justice is nonsense and does the resentment of citizens.
The Constitutional Council has agreed that all sanctions must be taken by a judge and not by a pseudo public administrative entity controlled by lobbyists. The independent justice has won the fight against the principle of “judge and party.”

The recognition of the right to access the Internet as a human right is a historic event. We are still facing to the consequences of that decision by extending this recognition to the right of free sharing of culture. This right goes hand in hand with the remuneration of artists, which is not fully secured by intellectual property, since very few artists are paid.

Respect for the presumption of innocence is another important point in this decision. By making the proof beared by the internet owner (with all abuses as consequence, government spyware and other), the legislature has violated this principle and it is only right if this part of the law has been simply censored.

Today, the Law “Creation and Internet” is emptied of substance but the government refuses to see the reality. How much defeat must it takes in order to make the government understand that this law is a failure ?
We will remain vigilant on the way that this affair could go.
The government will have again many opportunities to interfere with the freedoms of Internet users, we must remain each time mobilized to resist facing the surveillance of networks.

Let’s talk about the future now. The law known as Loppsi 2 is coming and probably the Government will make it an emergency, which would lead him back to the vote of simplified botched procedures that everyone knows. We still have a chance to prevent this law from passing. We need to alert and inform citizens about the risks that exist when filtering the Internet, so that France will never look like China. We must defend our digital freedom, which are fundamental, and act.
This government has no legitimacy to restrict civil and digital liberties.

The Pirate Party needs new forces to spread the need of justice and freedom.
We are calling all the pirates of France to fight under the banner of the 3 historical points of the International Pirate Party : Reform of Copyright, Free movement of scientific knowledge and promotion of Human Rights.

The French Pirate Party Historical Channel wants to congratulate the Swedish Pirate Party for his new Euro-deputy, Christian Engström.

This election is a victory for the International Pirate Movement, which will finally be able to disseminate its ideas into politics and media in a legitimate way.

We can see a positive sign of conscience and a hope for the universal dissemination of cultural works, the free flow of scientific knowledge and respect of fundamental rights of citizens.

Pirate Party ideas are full of potential, innovation and imagination, they are likely to deeply change political and economic dogma. They are particularly useful today and are expected to spread across the globe.

The Earth can no longer simply focus on an economic development without rationality or limits..

Culture gives a sens to our lives, education gives a leadership, and as such, they are top priorities for sustainable human development.

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