French "Three Strikes" Law Yields No Prosecutions

France's High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet (Hadopi) has prosecuted no one for illegal file sharing in the nine months since it began operating under a so-called "three strikes" copyright enforcement law. In that time, the authority has received over 18 million reports from rights holders of unauthorized file-sharing of copyright works, each one identifying the copyright work downloaded and the IP address alleged to have downloaded it, it announced.