Well, not really... but French courts recently ruled that downloading copywritten material from P2P networks is not illegal as long as it is done for personal use only.

A man was sued by the Société Civile des Producteurs Phonographiques after it was discovered he had almost 2,000 MP3 and DivX files on his hard drive.

The Judge in the case ruled that this constituted "private copying". Obviously, this case is being appealed, but confidence is high that the original verdict will be upheld in a higher court.

The French Parliament is also in meetings to consider applying a voluntary tax (there is such a thing?) or a surcharge of 5 Euros a month on P2P network users.

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