noah | November 23, 2007 9:15 am

French president Nicholas Sarkozy is proposing a “three strikes and you’re off the Internet” policy against people who download music and movies without paying for them first, a move that is so thrilling to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s ears that the consortium of record labels is willing to chuck digital-rights management out the window for “individual downloads of archive French material.” [FT]