I don't think it's specific to France. UK has random torrent websites banned the same way. Some regulation comes from EU, which has then been implemented by cou

I don't think it's specific to France. UK has random torrent websites banned the same way. Some regulation comes from EU, which has then been implemented by countries in EU: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive Publishers used the existing laws to get this ban, as they already did in other countries. I wouldn't be surprised they've started some similar actions in other countries and will end up with similar results. Honestly, almost every country has copyright laws, so allow this kind of lawsuit.