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Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband
slyjackhammer writes "France is purporting to take a hard line on copyrighted media (movies and music). According to timesonline.co.uk, a new measure approved yesterday by the French Cabinet would kill the Internet connection to those caught downloading illegally. 'There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone," President Sarkozy told his Cabinet yesterday as it endorsed the "three-strikes-and-you're-out" scheme that from next January will hit illegal downloaders where it hurts. Under a cross-industry agreement, internet service providers (ISPs) must cut off access for up to a year for third-time offenders.' Google and video site Dailymotion have refused to sign up as consenting participants, and the state data protection agency, consumer and civil liberties groups and the European Parliament are all kicking against the goad as well. France may be pioneer in this kind of legislation, but they sure have their work cut out for them."
Arrrrrrrrrrgh!
Download movies at work. Report your worksite. Rinse and repeat three times.
/. reader in France) and bingo, law will either be thrown out or the economy will collapse.
Do it on a country wide scale (say every
I ate your fish.
Oh okay then. Three warnings for each one in your family.
And three for each of your neighbors using your deliberately-open wifi.
Open proxies on your machine don't count.
After that no excuses.
Possibly the same thing that happened to UTF-8 encoder of your web browser?
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
If you download Britney Spears ... you are already punished enough by what you get! No need to disconnect here...
They should have a zero tolerance policy for downloading Britney Spears....one strike and your out.
After all it is for your own good. If your downloading Britney spears than you just don't deserve to have the privilege of using a internet connection.
Now that would be an anti net neutrality law I could stand behind!
And they had no revolutions in the last 40 years... something has to be done there.
In other news , French telco's are going broke , as apparently , most of their high bandwidth users where pirates .
Slipping shoelaces ?
France is purporting to take a hard line on streets. According to timesonline.co.uk, a new measure approved yesterday by the French Cabinet would take away the cars of those, caught speeding. 'There is no reason that the streets should be a lawless zone," President Sarkozy told his Cabinet yesterday as it endorsed the "three-strikes-and-you're-out" scheme that from next January will hit illegal drivers where it hurts. Under a cross-industry agreement, car-manufacturers must cut off access for up to a year for third-time offenders.'
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
Just more reasons to use your neigbours WiFi
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
we need only one worm that starts "illegal" downloads on every PC and whole France as a country is offline? Where are the script kiddies when you need them?
You need to learn about your own stupidity by having PITA. That works best.
Hey! Why does the word "guillotine" jump into my head?
Its funny I work for a french company and the Sales and Marketing department keeps sending emails around saying they have lost their guillotine. Personally I am happier for the S&M dept not to have a guillotine.http://michaelsmith.id.au
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I won't use so many caps. It's like yelling. I won't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:16:3E:72:42:c2
New MAC address!
I just change my IP address randomly from 192.168.1.2 all the way to 192.169.1.255 every day. They'll never find me ! Hahahaha !Um, wait...
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
It wasn't me! It was the Lexmark X500n!
The RIAA confirms it!
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Your entire rant has been debunked by "machines running Windows CE ver 2020". Didn't you know that it's "the year of the Linux desktop" every year until then.
Too many bad assumptions. Yes, the media companies hire some smart people, but there is a much, much larger community of far more intelligent people punching out code to circumvent these restrictions.
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If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to search me
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it