File sharing.

The French government has apparently issued a highly contradictory political solution to the file sharing issue. They've proposed to ban copyright infringement, but have also legalized P2P file-sharing. Is this an official stance, or is it simply be an outward sign of the heated intellectual property struggle that is occurring within the culture of nearly every technologically advanced nation today?

This article sheds some light on the weird political situation, and its inevitable and ultimately dismal result.