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HADOPI To Disconnect 60 People In France

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-internet-for-you dept.

bs0d3 writes "Today in France under the new HADOPI law, 60 people have received their third strike and are facing disconnection from the internet. The first 60 may only be the beginning. 650,000 people have received their first strikes, and 44,000 are on their second."

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  1. Angry Voters by rtb61 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    650,000 warnings, that 650,000 people so far who are very unlikely to vote for Scarsleezy who snuck the law in with no public review. Guess who is going to lose the next election big time and what law will be changed by the next incoming President to ensure an extended political career.

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    1. Re:Angry Voters by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Interesting

      True, 650,000 is about 1% of the population. However that's not 650,000 people that have recieved HADOPI warning letters, it's 650,000 households. Figure an average of two adults plus a good chance of a late teenager about to get the right to vote and you could be looking at 1.5 million people on the first step towards disconnection. Then there's student digs and bedsits where you could potentially be looking at five or more people on a shared connection - France has a large population of immigrants from across the EU and Northern Africa so I'd imagine the actual number of individuals might be much higher.

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    2. Re:Angry Voters by Coeurderoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Unfortunatelly no, that is about 550 000 people who didn't see the first letter (was sent to the wrong email address)
      90 000 who didn't read it (many people bellow 20 only use IM)
      5 000 who do not care and would not vote anyway
      2500 who would not have voted Sarcosy anyway
      2000 who would vote for sarcosy despite this because they consider it little more than a parking fine..
      500 might change their vote maybe if they can bother about it...

      Moreover the "socialist" (about as socialist as the US democrats are democratic or the republican are republican, that is very little)
      did not really fight the HADOPI, they did some populist show about a "global licence" from their "left wing" (that would be an ISP tax that would give a licence to copy, but only music not movies, so would have solved about nothing), but in reality they are thick in bed with UNIVERSAL...

      When we did a "demonstration" against DADVSI only 400 people came, for HADOPI we didn't even bother...
      We are living in a situation where government make laws that criminalize people but in a way that enforcement can be completelly arbitrary, it's very convenient, "everybody is guilty of something" we can arrest them whenever we want to... what fun...

  2. Oi, French, civil disobedience! Now! by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All 650,000 people on your first strike, please proceed to your second. The 44,000 on your second, proceed to your third. The rest of you, endeavour to earn your first over the coming weeks.

    Come on, France. You still understand the effectiveness of collective withdrawal of labour. So call the government on its own foolishness by forcing the law to take steps which withdraws you from effective contribution to the country. Do not stop until you can proudly call yourself the nation with the most people individually forbidden from using the Internet.

    First, other countries will laugh at you. Then your businessmen will realise what they've just done to their chances to make money. Then your government will listen to that whispering, gold-plated voice in their ear and the law will be repealed. Foreign governments and business will realise what will happen if this sort of law is enacted in their own precious fiefdoms and global attitudes will start to change.

    But you have to start yourselves by taking a risk and standing up.

    Thank you.