French ISP Refuses To Send Out Infringement Notices

An anonymous reader writes "Last month it was clear that French ISPs were not at all happy about the whole three strikes Hadopi process in France. Now that the 'notice' process has started, with Hadopi sending out notices to 10,000 people per day, it's hit a bit of a stumbling block. The French ISP named 'Free' has apparently figured out a bit of a loophole that allows it to not send out notices and protect its subscribers. Specifically, the law requires ISPs to reveal user info to Hadopi, but it does not require them to alert their users. But, the law does say that only users who are alerted by their ISP can be taken to court to be disconnected. In other words, even if Free is handing over user info, so long as it doesn't alert its users (which the law does not mandate), then those users cannot be kicked off the internet via Hadopi."

Comments

Re:Where are the parents?

[GooberToo]

for weeks on end.

If my point was not legitimate, the would stop them indefinitely. Since the duration is so short, it seems to imply my take on things is completely accurate.

Again - yawn!

Do we need that kind of precision

[acklenx]

10.000

Do we need that kind of precision? I could maybe understand 10.0 if you wanted to imply no half users (10.5). But what would constitute 10.001 anyway? Someone with a mole they wanted to remove? Or would they be 9.999 if they clipped their fingernails? In general I would think ISP's would only care about whole users. Just my American opinion.