Sarkozy Bruni split and the sinking French Online Piracy Law
It has been reported that the French presidential marriage was on the rocks much like the credibility of the three strikes anti-online filesharers law of France, handpicked and pampered to the podium by the celebrity couple.
As a matter of fact, it is a point to ponder whether Nickolas Sarkozy had really a soft corner for this legislation, although his wife that had been a product of the copyright industry and was still living it, had been keen on it – if you can call that lobbying.
These days both presidantial marriage and the French three strikes anti-online piracy law have taken serious hits with a torrent of reports linking the president with Chantal Jouanno the French Ecology minister, and his wife with Benjamin Biolay an award winning musician, literally tarnishing the respectability of the marriage while the other thing, the much touted of law has been virtually reduced to a show-piece with downloaders adopting alternatives to bypass it.
It is fact that there is a law in France to prevent illegal downloaders from doing it persistently; nonetheless the big question is now that the first lady has showed her real colours to blow life to a fresh romance, which too with a mop-haired trademark cutie of the creative industry bound by copyright, would the president carry on with the same alacrity he had shown earlier when his love life with Bruni was at its whirlwind best.
It is also believed that with reports coming in saying online illegal downloading has only increased despite the adoption of the three strikes law in the country, at least some of the broadband providers here would start protesting. And whatmore needed for a perfect ignition when a fresh research has revealed that disconnecting the downloaders actually was hurting the revenues of the creative industry.
On the whole, it is tough times ahead for both the prestigeous presidential marriage and the controversial anti-online piracy law of the French. However, Bruni can afford a broad smile; she has not only at least for once tasted the altitudes that she had always dreamt of wildly but also has pushed it through shrewdly for her godfathers – and for herself – in the music industry.
