France outsources Three Strike plan
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- France has decided Extelia, a subsidiary of Swiss Post, will act as the official Sarkozy government korporate kopyright kop.
And French taxpayers will be expected to foot the bill, worth almost $C1,602,000.
Extelia will find and identify surfers alleged to have downloaded content illegally, says Les Echos.
The system will be financed by the Hadopi, “whose budget for 2009 stands at 6.7 million,” it says.
Extelia will launch a “prototype” — a kind of software robocop – this fall in tests slated to run for up to a year, says the story.
It’ll work like this:
The entertainment cartels will ferret out IP addresses of people they’ve identified for special attention.
The information will be passed to Extelia for processing under a regime almost identical to the failed Three Strikes law Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to force through the French legislature on behalf of the corporate music and movie industries.
The company will warn alleged transgressors by letter and email that they’ve been identified, keep them under surveillance and, if they keep on doing what they’ve been told not to do, their online accounts will be terminated.
Extelia will also be responsible for making sure alleged file sharers behave themselves.
Stay tuned. And note this was put together via a Google translation thus, any mistakes will be ours. So if anyone would like to send us a decent translation …
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Les Echos – Hadopi : le gouvernement choisit Extelia pouridenti fier les pirates, July 21, 2009
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July 21st, 2009 at 10:05 am
“Dead or alive, you are coming with me!”
July 21st, 2009 at 10:08 am
It’s my pleasure to help us for the translation:
Extelia is not a subsidiary of Swiss Post but a subsidiary of French Post. Extelia will not find and identify surfers alleged to have downloaded content illegally. Extelia will only send the e mails. Another company will be in charge to find and identify these surfers…
You’ve also to remind that HADOPI 2 is not adopted by the French Parliament, the Bill is discussed now before the French Parliament. And the opposition in France has already declared that the bill will be examined by the “Constitutional Council” because like HADOPI I, this bill is unconstitutional…More to come…
Also see http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23471 and http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24687 – Cheers! Jon
July 21st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
If this bill pass this is what the French are going to do:
Step 1 use peergardian and download the world night and day to test the efectivness of peeer gardian.
I they receive a notice (Very very very unlikly even without peergardian!) they can either use TOR or use one of these anonymazed p2p application such as Ants or winny.
End of the Sarkozy problem!
Notice that the French president carry a name of a deadly disease.
A Sarcoma is a malignant tumor of the conjonctive tissue.
I wish cancer was has a simple cure such as this one to eradicate the Sarkozysm.
July 21st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
And if declared constitutional, France can and will be sued in the European court for violating citizens’ rights to a fair trial, because, honestly, you can’t make a fair decision in five minutes.