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Hadopi has its budget cut
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 26 October 2012
As expected, the French government body that oversees three-strikes in the country, Hadopi, has had its budget cut, though the cutbacks are possibly not as radical as some expected.
That said, the unit, which already has responsibilities for helping the music and movie industries protect their copyrights online, will also start working with the gaming sector on piracy issues, meaning in real terms the cutbacks are more than the two million euros that appears in the spreadsheets.
Set up to administer the controversial three-strikes system made law in France in 2009, which hasn’t been as draconian in terms of disconnecting file-sharers as was originally planned, Hadopi’s position was thrown into doubt earlier this year when the country’s new culture minister said the whole trios-strikes initiative was “unwieldy, uneconomic and ultimately ineffective”.
According to a French government report, summarised by Ars Technica, Hadopi’s annual budget has been cut to eight million euros, having been 11.4 million euros in 2011.
