I'm French, and as usual my country is doing completely stupid things and is driving shame on me.
As usual, theses politicians don't have any idea about what they are talking about.
Sueing sourceforge? I bet they don't even know what sourceforge is (there is a change they never went to the site either).
Wait a few months for them to spoil some of the government money, and then they will find someone else to sue.
This law isn't against downloading copyrighted files, it's against using tools that "can" lead to piracy.
When you will be accused of piracy, you will have to "prove" that you weren't pirating anything at the exact time (up to 6 month behind).
For example, seeing torrent traffic out of your internet connection will be enough proof to charge you of piracy, whatever you will be downloading. The law also include the fact that if you watch too much 'illegal' videos on youtube, you are a pirate.
If someone get an access to your internet connection and to something illegal, your internet will be cut off.
Well, it won't really be cut. Your access will just stop working. You'll still be a client of your ISP, and you will continue to pay it, unless you want to break the contract (and pay); which is good because in France many phone lines work using the internet.
Also remember that the law was passed in emergency, and that the ones responsible for it don't even know what they are talking about. For example, if you own a free wifi hotspot, and that someone used it to do piracy, you will be able to identify him with... his IP (the one your DHCP gave him). They don't know any technical think about what they are asking. For an ISP, it should cost about $15 per client per month to log everything you are doing on your internet connection.
They tried many times to achieve their goals by procedures like this before. But since each time they don't even get information about what the world really is; they fail. And they will fail again this time.
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I'm French, and as usual my country is doing completely stupid things and is driving shame on me.
As usual, theses politicians don't have any idea about what they are talking about. Sueing sourceforge? I bet they don't even know what sourceforge is (there is a change they never went to the site either). Wait a few months for them to spoil some of the government money, and then they will find someone else to sue.
This law isn't against downloading copyrighted files, it's against using tools that "can" lead to piracy. When you will be accused of piracy, you will have to "prove" that you weren't pirating anything at the exact time (up to 6 month behind).
For example, seeing torrent traffic out of your internet connection will be enough proof to charge you of piracy, whatever you will be downloading. The law also include the fact that if you watch too much 'illegal' videos on youtube, you are a pirate.
If someone get an access to your internet connection and to something illegal, your internet will be cut off. Well, it won't really be cut. Your access will just stop working. You'll still be a client of your ISP, and you will continue to pay it, unless you want to break the contract (and pay); which is good because in France many phone lines work using the internet.
Also remember that the law was passed in emergency, and that the ones responsible for it don't even know what they are talking about. For example, if you own a free wifi hotspot, and that someone used it to do piracy, you will be able to identify him with... his IP (the one your DHCP gave him). They don't know any technical think about what they are asking. For an ISP, it should cost about $15 per client per month to log everything you are doing on your internet connection.
They tried many times to achieve their goals by procedures like this before. But since each time they don't even get information about what the world really is; they fail. And they will fail again this time.