When Aziz Ridouan was growing up in a low-income housing project in the Loire Valley, he spent so much time on his computer that his family thought he didn't have any friends. In fact, he had tons of them – online. Now the 18-year-old high school student heads the Association des Audionautes, an organization of 6,000 Web junkies that has made peer-to-peer file-sharing an issue in France's upcoming presidential election. Under a plan that would compensate artists through a surcharge on Internet service provider fees, the group aims to make France the first country to legalize file-sharing. Think of it as Ascap for the P2P era.
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