The recent spate of digital regulation initiatives in Europe have one thing in common: they introduce new procedures that create friction in the system, such as consent forms, ex ante impact and risk assessment, reporting, rights of appeal. Built-in hurdles like these can be found in a lot of existing European Union legislation, such as …
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Regulation and Consumer Behaviour: Lessons from HADOPI
The tough French enforcement rules on copyright infringement, dubbed the HADOPI laws, named for the High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet agency set up to enforce them, can be considered the posterchildren of the so-called “graduated response” policy, an effort to fight illegal file sharing with …
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