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French court green lights lawsuits against P2P vendors

arstechnica.com — Limewire, Vuze, Shareaza, and Morpheus can all be sued on French soil, a court has ruled. Recent copyright law changes in France mean that creators and distributors of software "manifestly" designed to swap content illegally can be prosecuted, fined, and even tossed in jail.

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  • Nephersir7, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1First, the RIAA has no power in France
    Second, it's : "La RIAA c'est de la merde!"
  • ProfessorLX, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1i've always sucked ass at french
  • ProfessorLX, on 11/17/2008, -2/+2le RIAA c'est merde!

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