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Controversial French Copyright Law Takes Effect, to Industry Dismay
• PC WorldSoftware publishers and Socialist Party members are among the groups unhappy with the new French copyright law that took effect today. French Internet surfers could now go to [French] prison for downloading copyrighted music files without authorizati