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French Senate Passes Anti-Piracy Internet Cut-Off Law
An anonymous reader writes "The French Senate has approved a three strikes law for Internet users who download copyrighted entertainment media without paying for it. If, after two warnings, a person continues to download pirated music and movies, the internet service providers would cut off access for a year. Quoting: 'The legislation passed with a massive cross-party majority of 297 votes to 15. Only a handful of conservatives, centrists and socialists voted against, while the Communists abstained. In passing the bill, the senators rejected an amendment proposed by senator Bruno Retailleau of the right-wing MPF party replacing internet cut-off with a fine. ... The bill sets up a tussle between France and Brussels. In September, the European Parliament approved by a large majority an amendment outlawing internet cut-off."
We discussed the introduction of this legislation several months ago.
Please be sure to speak for yourself only and not assume that "everyone" does it.
Ok, everyone except you. Now take your treat and get back to work obedient citizen.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
If it would do all of that to you then it would be in your best interest to either move or not share files illegally. A little bit of investigation into the limited information online about this (why isn't there more?) seems to indicate that there will be some checks and balances in place and that the only thing the ISP will be doing is following orders to cut you off when they're told to do so but how much can one trust automated translation? So, well, I'm still sort of hoping that it isn't as bad as it appears to be with the cherry picked comments in this /. article.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I'm bored, I'll play your game for now.
Posting this AC? Why haven't you been modded troll yet (for the curious, even if not AC, should still be modded troll)?
The war in Iraq is in no way, shape or form related to this issue. But since you brought it up, the war in Iraq was not illegal. It was based on information that turned out to be false, but that was thought to be accurate at the time(for fucks sake, don't invoke godwins law here, and stay on topic, even though I got off topic a bit to bitch at AC). Now taxpayers in the US are paying for it, but thats the risk you take when the world views the US as required to give foreign aid to every country who doesnt have democracy despite the fact that countries who don't give foreign aid like to chastise us for doing so. Shame on all of you (Again, FWIW, I personally think this kind of funding should be left to charitable organizations, not government spending, but most of America likes to spend the money of those who have it to help those who don't, so the US is 11T in debt and everyone else still buys dollars like they are pounds).
If I give up bottled water (and FWIW, I dont drink the stuff, I have a filter on my tap, because I can figure out what things are worth buying and what aren't without advertisements telling me by doing a cost/benefit analysis, just like everyone else. We just choose to waste our money on things we dont need which is why boycotts actually do work. We stop buying things we dont need, and companies respond to public thought. How else do you possibly explain windmills?) I could just drink tap water. Or energy drinks. Or electroylyte drinks, like anything ending in "ade." Alcohol comes to mind (not wine though, thats the other 1/3 of France's economy).
As for the AC post below this, it will teach them not to create precedent for issues that they have not fully (or in this case, it seems even partially) thought through. I bring you back to the slippery slope raised earlier.
Seriously children, its Sunday. You aren't at work, post on your own username, so we can regulate ridiculous thought to where it belongs - below my scoring threshold, so I don't have to read this crap.