Next, you'll be expecting him to pay taxes or go to jail for nepotism....

"For his sake, we hope Sarkozy's own three-strikes policy for illegal filesharing of copyrighted works is applied per case rather than per disc."

We don't!

It may embarrass him, but that's all the punishment he'll get for it.

What a hypocrite. Forgetting to get permission before making the copies is a load of horse crap. With his status, he will likely receive preferential treatment with barely a slap on the wrist. Gee.. wish we could all get away with using that excuse. What do you think would happen to all of us if we made 1 or more copies of a movie without permission? Let alone 400 copies. What an arrogant, self-absorbed jackass.

Maybe but he doesn't own the rights to the DVD. He "signed his life away" already.

for "en", "us", (etc), speaking people, and "frogs" too: Le canard enchainé was founded while the nazi's were occupiyng France. Canard, (duck),is French pseudo-slang for newspaper, so: the chained newspaper!, "Le Canard Enchainé". Keep on trucking!. Reine.

from Obama, celebrating his Nobel Peace Prize.

Reminds me of an old movie title:

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

P.S. I betcha these DVDs were region compliant...

It doesn't matter if he is featured in the documentary, under our current system the publisher retains the rights, so even if you are the "star" of the documentary you have no power over who sells it, who buys it, or what editorial decisions are made.

He should be forbidden to use his audio-visual equipment. But he should be obliged to pay for its rent anyways. ;-)

all the credit

Vive la révélation!

Fait de découvrir ce qui était caché ou inconnu. Ce qui a été découvert.

'Le canard enchainé' has a satirical tone and a lot of cartoon illustration, but the information in it is absolutely no joke. It is the last paper in France that has still some credibility.

And it's also not the first time that Sarkozy and his party (UMP) have been caught pirating. The UMP used some music for their meetings befor election without proper licensing and were fined for that violation.

He will make a good overlord, maybe even a better one than Tony Blair.

The film is about himself. The publisher could not makes the documentary without Sarkozy's consent.

hillarious!

I thought Le Canard Enchaine was a satirical paper in the line of Private Eye. So this is likely to be a joke, je crois.