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

What only a windows version?

[shogun]

Is there an iPhone version and/or will they jailbreak it for me to get it running?

And how long until

[esocid]

Someone finds GPL code in it?

Hadopi (which, we should remind you, was caught infringing itself in using a font it did not license for its logo)

Joking aside, why not just make a federal sysadmin to prevent people from doing anything useful with their computers?