While digital platforms have been built by circumventing the applicable rules, they are gradually beginning to be caught up by the law. This article calls for the design of a multi-level governance framework to grasp this global phenomenon and its systemic disruptions. It seems indeed essential to penetrate the world of digital platforms through their territorial anchorage. After identifying the main challenges awaiting legal actors, the article examines the reactions of French law towards digital platforms. In France, judges appear to be foreground players, whereas the French lawmaker has remained in the background, seeking to strike a balance between supporting their development and controlling their activities. To achieve this balance, the French lawmaker experiments, innovates, often hesitates, placing sometimes the cursor too much in favour of the platforms, or too far in their control. While this balance has yet to be struck, the reforms undertaken so far shed light on a different French lawmaker, which prefers to anticipate rather than react, and favours a collaborative (albeit mandatory) approach with digital platforms.