La Quadrature du Net

La Quadrature du Net is a French non-governmental organization which is committed to civil rights on the Internet. It was founded in 2008 by Jérémie Zimmermann, and Philippe Aigrain and is located in Paris. La Quadrature du Net is committed against ACTA and Hadopi.

2012 distributed La Quadrature du Net a " Data Love USB stick " to all members of the European Parliament. This is what movies, music and books that illustrate the problems of the current copyright laws were.

Together with Acess, Bits of Freedom, European Digital Rights and Privacy International have the promotions page nakedCitizens.eu put online their representatives can inform you about their concerns about the citizens in Brussels.

The group is supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Free Software Foundation.

Trivia

The name is an allusion to the quadrature of the circle. The website of La Quadrature du Net was blocked in February 2012 by Orange UK.