DMCA 1201 is good law in France. America conditions trade agreements upon countries adopting equivalent language to 1201 in their local law. In the case of Fran

DMCA 1201 is good law in France. America conditions trade agreements upon countries adopting equivalent language to 1201 in their local law. In the case of France, the EU Copyright Directive has had 1201-equivalent language in it since the early 2000s. Even if it wasn't good law in France, Steam is a US platform, there is no "French Steam". You need something entirely owned and operated by non-US individuals to even have a chance of escaping US jurisdiction. Chinese domestic equivalent services would be your best bet these days, except now you have to deal with China's censorship machine, which makes the censorship[0] of not being able to release encryption keys for old videogames look like nothing. [0] US courts have categorically rejected the argument that copyright infringement is free speech. In fact, they seem to believe the opposite: that artists not being paid in monopoly rights is censorship, and that the 1st Amendment has a sort of ROBOT9000[1] rule where copies aren't speech. The EFF has 1st Amendment challenges to DMCA 1201 specifically but I do not expect them to be successful. [1] An IRC bot operated by XKCD creator Randall Munroe, which was also implemented by moot in 4chan's /r9k/ board. The bot removes speech that has been spoken in the past.