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11-26-2007, 10:10 AM
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A three-way agreement has been reached (http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL2346825720071123) between the French government, ISPs and the music/film industry to develop an anti-piracy system in France. The system is based on a three strikes rule . Illegal downloaders will receive two warnings that they are being monitored and that their downloading must be stopped. After a third time, their broadband access will be cut off.
In a speech supporting the new system, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: The Internet must not become a high-tech Far West, a lawless zone where outlaws can pillage works with abandon or, worse, trade in them in total impunity. And on whose backs? On artists' backs.
The new system is opposed by a number of politicians as well as by consumer groups in France who fear that it s restrictiveness is excessive enough to violate consumer freedoms.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/France-Fights-Piracy-with-New-System-89728)
A three-way agreement has been reached (http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKL2346825720071123) between the French government, ISPs and the music/film industry to develop an anti-piracy system in France. The system is based on a three strikes rule . Illegal downloaders will receive two warnings that they are being monitored and that their downloading must be stopped. After a third time, their broadband access will be cut off.
In a speech supporting the new system, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: The Internet must not become a high-tech Far West, a lawless zone where outlaws can pillage works with abandon or, worse, trade in them in total impunity. And on whose backs? On artists' backs.
The new system is opposed by a number of politicians as well as by consumer groups in France who fear that it s restrictiveness is excessive enough to violate consumer freedoms.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/France-Fights-Piracy-with-New-System-89728)