French anti-P2P agency's funding to fall by 23 percent in 2013

More than a month after a French court convicted its first three-strikes offender under the anti-P2P regime known as Hadopi, the French government will be continuing the controversial program into 2013. And despite a reduced budget, Hadopi will also begin policing pirated video games, in addition to films and music.

The US has been gearing up for the implementation of a similar six-strikes anti-piracy program, due to hit our networks in the coming weeks.

[via arstechnica]

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