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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.
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...
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?"
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
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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