One Thousand Connections Per Day |
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Friday May 22, 2009
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AP reports that French Culture Minister anticipates cutting off access for one thousand people per day once the three strikes and you're out system takes effect.
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One thousand people to leave their home You are accused by MediaSentry of downloading something Your landlord gets an e-mail with this: 1.) Disable access to the individual who has engaged in the conduct described above; and 2.) Terminate any and all accounts that this individual has through you” Your landlord terminates your lease and tells you to leave the apartment. And one thousand people per day. It is happening already, in Australia. "One strike and you are homeless" http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22143 |
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Disconnections "One Thousand Disconnections Per Day" would be a slightly more accurate headline. I wonder how this will affect piracy in France? Will casual pirates change their behaviour or become more determined? Will they change their children's behaviour? Will honest people get disconnected for legal use of P2P or erroneous infringement accusations? How do France's ISP's feel about losing 1000 paying customers / day? The refuge of the determined pirate are many. Legislation like this will simply drive them deeper and deeper into the darknet. If there was any possible way to stop illegal file copying we'd have used it on child pornography by now. |
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re: Disconnections @bradm You will have to continue paying for your Internet connection, you just won't be allowed to use it anymore. ISPs are thus technically not losing any money. |
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Just a minute here... Quote: "You will have to continue paying for your Internet connection, you just won't be allowed to use it anymore. ISPs are thus technically not losing any money." I heard this, too. And it doesn't make sense. How can something like this hold up in court? |
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This disconnect rate approaches 1/2 the birth rate The population of France is huge, at about 662,448,977 people, but they live in families of more than one person, and they are only born at about twice the rate they're being cut off from use of the net. If the disconnections happen, in five years there will be an underclass of 1,800,000 families with no right to use the internet, many of whom will include adults of voting age. The politicians who've voted for this proposal can look forward to being held up to public approbation for trying to create this underclass, and some large number of unhappy voters, arguably everyone whose been cut off because of a accusation against their children. If the disconnections are found to target specific groups such as the North Africans, they will also face new concerns about racism... All in all, not the kind of initiative that will lead to re-election. --dave |
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