HADOPI is dead. Here comes Loppsi.
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “HADOPI’s ‘three strikes’ is finally buried,” says Jérémie Zimmermann, director of La Quadrature du Net in Paris.
“All we have now is a big tax-sponsored spam machine for the entertainment industries.”
The Constitutional Council, France`s highest legal authority, “decided that presumption of innocence is more important than the idiotic schemes from the entertainment industries to artificially prolong their obsolete models,” he says.
It cut the heart out of the legisilation: “All sanctioning power (ie. disconnecting internet users) has been removed from the HADOPI.”
The funeral wreath is addressed to culture minister Christine Albanel who, before the Three Strikes law was buried, promised to start spamming thousands of warning letters to alleged file sharers as Strike One of the entertainment kartell inspired effort to gain control of the Net.
Now she says she’ll “suggest” to Sarkozy, that the law be modified as the council demanded, “reserving for judges the decision to cut off Internet access,” says the New York Times, going on, “She said she regretted the loss of an opportunity to ‘decriminalize’ the process by giving the new agency that power.
“Albanel added that warning letters would begin going out to downloaders as planned in the autumn.”
But without the threat of disconnection, “the new agency would be toothless”.
As Zimmermann warns, however, this isn’t the end of, “Sarkozy’s will to control”.
Nor of Hollywood’s or the Big 4 record labels’.
Next up? Loppsi 2.
It’s, “already on tracks and will be about filtering the content on the Internet,” he said, adding, “Citizens must celebrate this great victory but remain watchful.”
The next assault
“It seems the circle has been completed for France which, at the end of the 1700s, saw a revolution meant to free the people ,” said p2pnet recently, going on »»»
But now, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity have gone out the window.
First HADOPI, and now Loppsi 2, meaning 1984 has arrived in France.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is the title to the George Orwell novel about a totalitarian regime built on, pervasive government surveillance and control, and government`s increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual.
The French government, fresh from passing its controversial `three strikes` law to boot repeat file-sharers off the Internet, is now prepping its next assault on online malfeasance, writes Nate Anderson in Ars Technica, going on »»»
A new bill would legalize government keyloggers, institute ISP censorship of child porn sites, and set up a massive citizen database called Pericles.
Having just passed its super-controversial Création et Internet graduated response law, you might think the French government would take at least a brief break from riling up the internautes. Instead, the government is prepping a new crime bill that will, among other things, mandate Internet censorship at the ISP level, legalize government spyware, and create a massive meta-database of citizen information called Pericles.
Under Loppsi 2, Anderson adds, French ISPs would also need to participate in a Web censorship regime that initially appears targeted at child pornography. Critics like Jean-Michel Planche, who advises the French government on Internet issues, are already calling the new bill the end of an open and neutral Internet.
Finally, the bill allows for a database called `Pericles` that can pull together information from various existing French databases to create a `super-dossier` on people. According to Le Monde, such a database could contain all sorts of crucial, personal information, and sounds certain to set off the same debates that have taken place in the US whenever similar projects have been floated.
It`s definitely time for another French Revolution.
Stray tuned.
finally buried - French 3 strikes law struck down. Again. June 10, 2009
La Quadrature du Net – Hadopi is dead: “three strikes” buried by highest court, June 10, 2009
New York Times – French Council Defangs Plan to Crack Down on Internet Piracy, June 10, 2009
p2pnet – Loppsi 2: time for a new French Revolution, May 21, 2007
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June 11th, 2009 at 8:41 am
somebody got drunk and forgot to dump fluoride in the water supply this week.
…Viva La Resistance!
June 11th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
As much as I dislike child pornography (especially with a daughter), I think this whole anti-child pornography bit is being blown out of proportion, and even being used by governments, as in this case, to push their own agendas (i.e. anti- freedom of speech, anti- choice, anti- innovation, etc…) , and get a reason to riffle through people’s privacy.
Case in point:
There have been teenagers who have been arrested with “child pornography” for having pictures of themselves in the nude. While it is very stupid of these children to have done something like that, another very possible situation, would be a parent videotaping a 8 year old son/daughter signing to their heart’s content in the shower during their vacation overseas- because it was cute- and being arrested for the video at the US borders.
At the same time, I often carry confidential information when I travel back to the US, and I don’t like the fact that I could have my PC searched, whether I like it or not, just on the off chance that I might be carrying in child pornography or ripped copies of music from a CD.
just my two cents
June 12th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Ok France here is an easy solution to your big problem. Cut off all your internet connections. Problem solved. Damn that was easy. Oh wait the people won’t like that… oh well that’s tough. Many have to suffer so the few have it good… Or was it the other way around? Doesn’t matter as long as I don’t have to give up anything and I don’t have to suffer.
Democracy is getting nailed all over. Fck free speech is the order of the day it seems. Here we go around in the EU touting democracy and IF it fits our scheme we will use it. Otherwise bring in the dictators, we wouldn’t want the stupid people who don’t know whats best for them to decide their own fates… please that is just dumb.
Time to start shipping some of these people over to Guantanamo because their ideas seem anti-patriotic.