Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware

An anonymous reader writes "With the 'three strikes' law now in effect in France, the organization tasked with implementing it, Hadopi, has been working on technology specs for making the process work — and those specs have now leaked. It appears to involve client-side monitoring and controlling software, that would try to watch what you were doing online, and even warn you before you used any P2P protocol (must make Skype phone calls fun). It's hard to believe people will accept this kind of thing being installed on their computers, so I can't wait to see how Hadopi moves forward with it. It also appears to violate EU rules on privacy."

Comments

Woot

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, nice! Can I have the Linux version?

Re:Woot

[Anonymous Coward]

This is for France... but of course they will insist on using Wine.

I have no problem with French Spyware

[AnonymousClown]

All of have to do just install anti-spyware software - no need to even run it - and the French spyware immediately uninstalls itself without me having to do anything.

Re:Not to worry

[gandhi_2]

Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and pervasivé monitoré.

Removing the software is easy

[riskeetee]

It surrenders itself immediately!