3-Strikes Law to Disconnect French Pirates

[zatoicchi]

Over the past few months, many countries have looked into the possibility of disconnecting file-sharers from the Internet. Today, France is the first to present their new “3-strikes” law, which allows anti-piracy outfits such as IFPI, RIAA and MPAA to police the Internet.

A few weeks after the University of Washington showed that “copyright infringement warnings” are based on reckless tactics, France announces to use these notices to disconnect pirates from the Internet. The warning emails, sent by anti-piracy organizations, often carry the force of law with an ISP, despite being a blind unproven accusation. Lobby groups have pushed for these notices to be all the evidence needed for punishment in some countries, and France is the latest to follow the lobby money, with a 3-strikes law just proposed.

The new legislation will make it possible to disconnect people from the Internet, if they receive more than two copyright infringement warnings. The warnings will be sent out by the ISPs, solely based on data gathered by anti-piracy organizations.

3-Strikes Law to Disconnect French Pirates | TorrentFreak

[anon]

"The warning emails, sent by anti-piracy organizations, often carry the force of law with an ISP, despite being a blind unproven accusation."


when you tell someone not to do something..... now "torrent proxy" and VPN services will become very popular in france

[Aurion]

Taking into consideration the the bandwith limits set by default in most of europe's ISPs which already sux,now comes a new law that sufficates internet users in another different way to just piss off Free Internet Addicts starting from one country up to a whole continent