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Journal d'un avocat
Personal blog · maitre-eolas.frother
Journal d'un avocat is a personal blog at maitre-eolas.fr. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
A French lawyer's blog on French law, covering cases on website access, copyright and online speech. HN commenters cite it for its legal analysis of French rulings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /post/2014/02/07/NON%2C-on-ne-peut-pas-%C3%AAtre-condamn%C3%A9-pour-utiliser-Gougleu2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-09
What Hacker News says?
In France, we had a similar case, a computer guy with the pseudonym Bluetouff[0]. He downloaded loads of national agencies confidential documents, because they were available on Google. However, he was sentenced (3,000€ fine), because when he explored the website, he arrived on a connection page, thus realizing he should not have accessed these files, but continued anyway. I just hope for the teenager that he did no…
Comment linking /post/2014/02/07/NON%2C-on-ne-peut-pas-%C3%AAtre-condamn%C3%A9-pour-utiliser-Gougleu
on “Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website”Copyrights are so stupid sometimes. In France there was this class (children) that sing a song to their teacher retiring. Guess what? There fuckers came and ask for money, what a world we live in. Source (in french of course, sorry): http://www.maitre-eolas.fr/post/2006/07/21/403-adieu-monsieu...
Comment linking /post/2006/07/21/403-adieu-monsieur-le-professeur-bonjour-madame-la-sacem
on “Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their “smoking gun””The ruling is more complicated than that. If you can read french, I suggest you read Maitre Eolas' take on it [1]. [1] http://www.maitre-eolas.fr/post/2014/02/07/NON%2C-on-ne-peut...
Comment linking /post/2014/02/07/NON%2C-on-ne-peut-pas-%C3%AAtre-condamn%C3%A9-pour-utiliser-Gougleu
on “ French journalist "hacks" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+”I'm French as well and, quite frankly, I don't see anything special here. It's just business as usual as it has been for the past 5 years. It goes like this: 1) A tragic but isolated incident occurs. 2) Our dear President jumps into action, calls a press conference and, with a dramatic tone of voice, announces that he will pass a new law that will protect us all against this happening again. 3) The media happily rep…
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on “France announces crackdown on people reading extremist Web sites”To give some more information about the French perspective here: - No source is given for the claim that "The French government has declared books an 'essential good.'", I have been unable to find any French source about this, and I am entirely unaware of such a declaration. I would be interested if anyone could point me to more information about this. - There is a fixed price law on books, which to my knowledge has…
Comment linking /post/2008/05/15/954-le-prix-du-livre-n-inclut-pas-le-prix-du-timbre-poste
on “Should the United States Declare Books an ‘Essential Good’?”