Wow, we hadn't seen that for a while...

From MSNBC:

French court rules against copy
protection

This is not even possible. How can this happen? The MPAA won't be able to sleep tonight...

The part I find interesting is this quote from the article:

Lionel Thoumyre, a lawyer for the artist rights group Spedidam, said the ruling
sets a new precedent in the European Union, where intellectual property laws are
nearly identical among member states.
"This is brand new," he said. "I think
this is the first judgment in Europe going in this direction."

No kidding, it's brand new. It's one thing to rule that say something like DeCSS is not illegal, it's another to declare copy protection altogether illegal. Let's just see how many days before the judgement gets reversed or laws amendended to make sure it returns to being legal.