p2pnet - rss feed: France joins RIAA, MPAA
p2pnet news Politics:- | P2P:- French culture minister Christine Albanel has formally presented the ‘three strikes and you’re out’ P2P file sharing bill to cabinet, effectively turning the country into a massive taxpayer financed, but entertainment industry controlled, copyright enforcement agency.
“The legislation would set up a new administrative body that would receive complaints from the music and film industry and track down offenders through Internet service providers,” says Agence France-Presse.
“An e-mail warning would be sent to suspected downloaders followed by a registered letter,” it says.
After two “strikes,” suspects would risk losing their Net broadband connections for up to a year.
The rules will come into effect in January when French Web users will be targetted for downloading copyrighted films and songs, “presumably including those of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy,” says the Independent.
“There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone,” the story has Sarkozy, an ardent supporter of the George W. Bush administration, saying.
He’s been following the issue of artists’ rights closely since marrying Carla Bruni, a singer and model whose next album is due out next month, says the Telegraph, going on:
“One of the couple’s first meetings was when she took part in a cross-industry delegation which handed its proposals to Mr Sarkozy at the Elysée last November.”
France’s new £15 million ($29,604,314) government body, Hadopi, “will be in charge of sanctioning offenders,” says the story.
“Companies will be required to install firewalls to stop employees conducting illegal downloads from work computers.”
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Agence France-Presse - France clamps down on Internet piracy, June 18, 2008
Independent - Three strikes and you lose broadband, net thieves told, June 19, 2008
Telegraph - France threatens broadband ban on internet pirates, June 19, 2008
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Wait, this passed? I thought it was just being voted on…
June 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Excellent , in about a year when there are no more internet users.
And sales drop how are they going to claim piracy now?
let us all have a forced break and then see how sales are driven.
Oh why not add there person to a NO TV list, no RADIO list and
charge them for wine.
ya
June 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
“…the issue of artists’ rights….”
Oh Gawd, not that rot again. That horse is DEAD. Stop beating it and speak some truth for a change. This is about money for the media conglomerates. It has so little to do with “artist’s rights” that to bring it up in reference to this legislation is a farce. Bad Nicolas! Very bad.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Who’s to say what’s legal or not, copyright infringed or not? Certainly the public wouldn’t know. So this means all file sharing activity then? File sharing cannot be illegal, and I would never support such an arbitrary law. It would also mean the end of the French internet, and any other country foolish enough to follow suit. “There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone”. Again, what has that to do with file sharing activities? Millions of artists and business people rely on the Internet for a living and that includes file transfers. Since the Internet will be dead, all the companies which use it for advertising will also suffer and possibly die. Thanks France, MPAA, RIAA.
One other point, what’s to prevent a victim’s name from just being picked out a 2nd and 3rd time for no reason other than to force him offline? We must rely on the integrity of the cartels? That’s an abominable contradiction in terms.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Enforcement on this one? Seriously? Are you going to lead-shield offender houses so they don’t get open WiFi?
Morons.