The French could always go outside the borders, download it, save the files on a few flash drives, and then come back. .~.
Now if they did something like this in America, there would be utter chaos, as at least 95% of the people that have internet access illegally download something from one client or another.
The other 5%:
A. Are good, law-abiding people (which aren't any fun >,>)
B. Don't know how to (yes, a few people have asked me how to install limewire... a program that I no longer use due to it being a P2P.)