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In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day
mykos writes with an excerpt from TorrentFreak that says the automated enforcement of France's three-strikes law known as Hadopi is now coming into effect: "The scope of the operation is mind boggling. The copyright holders will start relatively 'slowly' with 10,000 IP-addresses a day, but within weeks this number is expected to go up to 150,000 IP-addresses per day according to official reports. The Internet providers will be tasked with identifying the alleged infringers' names, addresses, emails and phone numbers. If they fail to do so within 8 days they risk a fine of 1,500 euros per day for every unidentified IP-address. To put this into perspective, a United States judge ruled recently that the ISP Time Warner only has to give up 28 IP-addresses a month (1 per day) to copyright holders because of the immense workload the identifications would cause."
The second hit of the sarko-na-zy regime.. welcome to égalité, liberté et fraternité..
People of the USA now is our time to shine. Brothers I call you to arms for now is the moment when we can truly shout across the internet that we as a nation are no longer the most fucked up country around!
If I'm bored, I'll go do what everyone else does: get in line for your momma.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.