Do not give upRepairing Hadopi it would persist in error

Saving the Hadopi soldier. After the affront inflicted Wednesday to the Government by the Constitutional Council, the Elysee resumed in hands the file to try to save the heart of the anti-piracy law. Despite the decision of the elders of the rue Montpensier censuring the central provision of the text creation and the Internet the cutoff of access to the Internet by an independent authority, the Hadopi Act will be actually promulgated in the coming days. For the "penalty" pane, a new text will be presented to Parliament "the as soon as possible", to return to the original device that puts in place the "graduated response".

In the State after what remains of its review by the Constitutional Council, the Act is indeed deemed ineffective in the eyes of the Government, because only the branch "prevention", i.e. the sending of

warning messages to users illegally downloading works, has been validated. "Sanctions are indispensable to make the graduated response system," was knowledge of government source yesterday. This additional device may take the form of a new Bill, very short, as it is to endorse the possibility of a judge cut access to the Internet, or, less likely solution, the addition of items in an existing statute. The Government wants to move quickly, and this new text could be presented at the extraordinary session of Parliament in July.

The decision of the Constitutional Council has caused a storm in the cultural community and a joy not concealed in the world of the Internet and in the parliamentary opposition. "A pedagogical slap a Government that header", and reacted the consumers association of cfu - that choose.

Do not give up

"Repairing Hadopi, it would persist in error." It will take that Nicolas Sarkozy throws the fatwa he had thrown on the net. "It does that still more necessary the States General of culture and creation", found its Christian Paul, one of the leaders of the frond of the PS against this text to the National Assembly. After the decision of the Constitutional Council, two solutions available to the Executive: is a second deliberation of censored articles, without enactment of the Act; is a promulgation of the law as it exists, articles censored, and the addition of a new text to complete the graduated response device. It is this second solution was selected. It indeed has the advantage of implementing the Hadopi upon the promulgation of the Act, and, with it, sending the first warning messages.

At the beginning of day, the entourage of Nicolas Sarkozy had set the tone: no question of lowering the arm on a text followed closely by the President of the Republic. "It was decided the issue very quickly." "For him, the decision of the Board does not call into question the substance of the text", said a close source of the Elysée, quoted by AFP.

Hence the meeting urgently in the Elysee Palace the day after the decision of the Constitutional Council, in the presence of the directors of the cabinet of the Ministers concerned (Culture and Communication, Justice) and the Prime Minister. Almost two years after the establishment of the Olivennes mission, originally of this Bill, and after several rounds of theatre, the way of the implementation of the "graduated response" cross is still not complete.