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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."
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.
In other news , French telco's are going broke , as apparently , most of their high bandwidth users where pirates .
Slipping shoelaces ?
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?"
It wasn't me! It was the Lexmark X500n!
The RIAA confirms it!
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