Although the senate has passed the bill, a row over civil liberties is expected as parliament debates the law this week. Christian Paul, a Socialist MP leading opposition to the law, said it would create a precedent for "massive surveillance" of the internet and society as a whole. "Criminalising a whole generation is a dead end," he added, warning that the law would not bring an extra euro to crisis-hit record companies, which instead needed to look at their business plan. Socialists argue that the law, which focuses on file sharing or download sites rather than new technologies of streaming, is inconsistent and already outdated.