France is about to filter internet content according to music and cinema majors’ request.
We strongly oppose to the filtering of Internet content, either when the majors ask it, or when the european commissioner Frattini does.
French government asked the CEO of FNAC, France biggest CD and DVD retail chain owned by the PPR* Group, to propose repressive measures against P2P file-sharing.
By accepting this mission, FNAC’s CEO (Denis Olivennes) took a strong position against freedom of the internet users.
We alert every Pirate Party around the globe about the measures that France is about to take and that could be taken as well as in other european countries :
- filtering of internet content.
- creation of an independant authority, parallel to justice, able to terminate internet access of users, and to punish any ISP that wouldn’t comply.
- creation of a national directory of such “terminated” users.
We therefore call every internet user to boycott products from the majors and from any company attacking our freedom.
(press release from PP)





