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Re:The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:33PM (#29398325)
In France they managed to make the country pay for the hunt against P2P.

There was a governmental agency (Hadopi) that costed millions of euros and due to the stupid law managed to won I think one case for 2000€.

They got merged into another useless agency and was forgotten. I am not sure whether they still exist, nobody really cares.

This is how pay of our tax money is spent in France, on subsidized sandboxes for politicians.

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Re:The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk by dhosek on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:49AM (#29404900)
Interestingly, I had a CD that I owned go bad. I found it on a torrent and started downloading it on my laptop. It was taking weeks to finish. I forgot that it was running and then went on vacation to Paris, taking my laptop with me. Within the first hour at our AirBNB the torrent finished.
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