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Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-see-what-you-did-there dept.

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."

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  1. Hey, the specs actually bring up free software. :P by Balinares · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Page 15, under "key objectives": "integration in any environment, including free software".

    I'm curious to see how they intend to make that work out. :P

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