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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. |
