French anti-piracy association attacked by BitTorrent site supporters

One can disagree on the scope and enforcement of copyright. If you can’t work it out together, you may decide to take it to court, or as was the case yesterday, debate about ways to bring about some useful changes. This reportedly went down in a less peaceful way in France yesterday.

According to a press release, ALPA (the French anti-piracy association) was raided yesterday. Ten people claiming to be associated with ATILD (Association for Internet Downloading and Free Diffusion) forced their way into ALPA’s offices in order to hang banners from its balconies in support of internet site Wawa-mania and of its admin Dimitri Mader, nicknamed Zac. There is currently a lawsuit going on between ALPA and the admin of the French platform BitTorrent Wawa-Mania. An employee would have been mistreated.

28 May 2010