France's sometimes controversial 'Creation And Internet' law will be back on the country's parliamentary agenda by the end of the month.
As previously reported, the new copyright laws, which include the three-strike provision whereby illegal file-sharers who fail to heed two warnings regarding their actions will be disconnected from the internet, stumbled at the penultimate hurdle last week.
Those against the proposals took advantage of a low pre-Easter turn out in the French Assembly to successfully vote against them, despite the Assembly having previous voted in favour of various rules within the proposed legislation.
France's government remains committed to the new laws though, and the whole three-strike malarkey, and the country's Culture Minister has threatened to resign if it isn't ultimately passed by the French parliament, so last week's vote is certainly just a delay rather than the end of the proposals. However, both houses of the French parliament will now have another chance to discuss the proposed legislation, including the Senate, which had previously passed it, which means more amendments could be pushed through before the whole shebang goes to the French Constitutional Council, the last stage before three-strikes et al actually becomes law.
The next debate on the proposals has been set for 29 Apr.