[The Associated Press] French lawmakers reject Internet piracy bill

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Opponents also pointed out that users downloading from public WiFi hotspots or using masked IP addresses might be impossible to trace. Others called its proposed monitoring structures unrealistic.

« It is a bad response to a false problem, » said Jeremie Zimmerman, coordinator of the Quadrature du Net, a Paris-based Internet activist group that opposed the bill, calling it « completely impossible to apply. »

He said the bill’s rejection is proof of a widespread sense that it was a draconian approach.

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