Sarkozy busted with 400 'pirated' DVDs
IT WOULD APPEAR that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been caught out with 400 illegally copied DVDs - of a documentary about himself.
According to the French paper Le Canard Enchaine (The Chained Duck), the president rather fancied himself in a documentary called 'A visage decouvert : Nicolas Sarkozy', done by Galaxie Presse, and wanted to give copies of it to fellow diplomats attending a conference.
But things went agley when the distributor sent him only 50 copies, not enough to go around.
In atypical French fashion, Sarkozy refused to surrender and instead enlisted the help of the presidential AV club, the Service audiovisuel de la presidence de la Republique, to burn off a few hundred copies for him to dish out.
Unfortunately it slipped his mind to get permission from the publisher first.
In true DVD pirate manner they apparently even rejigged the cover, removing the studio's logo and replacing it with their own, but stopped short of photoshopping Sarkozy's head onto the bare chested torso of Vladimir Putin.
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. µ
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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.
hillarious!
The film is about himself. The publisher could not makes the documentary without Sarkozy's consent.
He will make a good overlord, maybe even a better one than Tony Blair.
'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.
all the credit
Vive la révélation!
Fait de découvrir ce qui était caché ou inconnu. Ce qui a été découvert.
He should be forbidden to use his audio-visual equipment. But he should be obliged to pay for its rent anyways. ;-)
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.
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...
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.
Maybe but he doesn't own the rights to the DVD. He "signed his life away" already.
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.
It may embarrass him, but that's all the punishment he'll get for it.
"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!
Next, you'll be expecting him to pay taxes or go to jail for nepotism....