The French National Assembly today passed legislation that sets up a “three strikes” system for those who pirate movies and music online. First time offenders will receive a warning via email. If they continue illicit downloading (or perhaps uploading - the original article doesn’t specify) they’ll get another warning through snail mail. After a third and final infraction, their internet access will be shut down for a year.
The technical details of this bill were not immediately clear, such as whether offenders’ home internet would be shut down or whether they would be somehow ‘blacklisted’ by multiple ISPs and access points. However, compared to the fines in the United States, this is a much more reasonable punishment that is in line with what the RIAA has promised to do in the future.
What do you think? Is it tough enough, too harsh, or not much of a deterrent?
France adopts tough internet bill [Straits Times]
Tags: copyright law, Piracy
In France, this decision is over-disputed, an amazing amount of internet users took attention to this law, but politic’s always the same, if the government wants something, it gets it.
The thing is that this law is technologicaly unapplicable, because most of the people nows about how hack it.
finaly it just makes us laugh, we’ll see.