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Comments on news posted 2007-11-25 11:55:27: A three-way agreement has been reached between the French government, ISPs and the music/film industry to develop an anti-piracy system in France. The system is based on a “three strikes rule”. ..
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Bronx, NY | this is a travesty anyone who agress with this pack your bags and move to china | |
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ॐ | Re: this is a travesty said by INT0CABLE:anyone who agress with this pack your bags and move to china yes, a second home, only cozier. | |
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| How they Going to Know How are they going to know what you downloaded is legit or not?
If anyone can answer please tell. If there is no real answer then whats the point of the law? I mean seriously. They would have to have some type of checking going on to tell if its been bought legally or not, so how does this program work? | |
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1 edit | Re: How they Going to Know My best guess now that I think about it is that they are going to develop and maintain a database of content that is known to be infringing on copyright. For example by scouring Bittorrent trackers and other such websites then nabbing the users who download the flagged files.
There is no other way this would work without risking false positives, which would be completely unacceptable for a system like this. | |
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| Nice try I'm not for or againt efforts to stop illegal P2P downloading. However, one thing I do know that as attempts are made to reduce illegal downloads, people come up with ways to circumvent it. Peer Guardian is one that works fairly well to prevent detection. Another way is to use a VPN tunnel to a privacy orientated company like relakks.com in Sweden (where P2P is still protected). Another is the fairly new Mute P2P which sends encrypted IP addresses all over the place, via other Mute users, until it finally gets to you (nearly indetectable as to who is sending/receiving). France's law, to me, does not make a considerable effort in ending P2P downloading, it simply makes the non-techies more vulnerable to punishment leaving the knowledgeable P2P downloader still in business. Plus, say grandma's ISP cuts her off. What's to stop her grandchild or child or neighbor for that matter from starting new service at her address? I'm sure France isn't going to allocate the resources to actually see if Grandma moved and someone else is in the home, etc.
France's new law will definitely get some people kicked off the net but it is far from a real solution, especially when you can pay around 5 Euros/month for a VPN encrypted tunnel to Sweden or Russia which at the moment is nearly impossible for ISPs, RIAA, MPAA, etc. to catch.
Just my opinions on how this law is limited in it's scope, not trying to take sides. | |
| | | goodForCommerce Sure, this will work.
Hey, if you try to buy your gasoline for under the $8 a gallon (France)with all the mandated fees and taxes.. you get your car and driver's license taken away and are banned from buying gasoline even to mow your lawn.
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