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Information Technology News French say non to pirates with year long Internet ban
Information Technology News French say non to pirates with year long Internet ban | French say non to pirates with year long Internet ban |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Monday, 23 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 The answer, at least in the eyes of the French
government, can
probably be found in the fact that some 300 people have been convicted
for piracy over the last couple of years in France. Yet piracy remains
as prevalent as ever. Certainly there has been no slowing down of the
dive in popularity of recording industry sales across Europe.This is actually quite clever, because once the initial fuss dies down as it inevitably will, the law will remain. More importantly, the onus on enforcing that law will sit firmly with the ISPs. So guess who the public will blame for what many see as a Draconian infringement of their freedom? Not least because the cost of that enforcement, the cost of deep packet inspection monitoring, will inevitably be passed on to the law abiding Internet consumer. Oh, and the likely outcome of many innocents being caught in the anti-piracy net while the commercial scale pirates get away with it.
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