Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband

slyjackhammer writes "France is purporting to take a hard line on copyrighted media (movies and music). According to timesonline.co.uk, a new measure approved yesterday by the French Cabinet would kill the Internet connection to those caught downloading illegally. 'There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone," President Sarkozy told his Cabinet yesterday as it endorsed the "three-strikes-and-you're-out" scheme that from next January will hit illegal downloaders where it hurts. Under a cross-industry agreement, internet service providers (ISPs) must cut off access for up to a year for third-time offenders.' Google and video site Dailymotion have refused to sign up as consenting participants, and the state data protection agency, consumer and civil liberties groups and the European Parliament are all kicking against the goad as well. France may be pioneer in this kind of legislation, but they sure have their work cut out for them."

Bonjour!

[Anonymous Coward]

Arrrrrrrrrrgh!

Re:Democracy; and the easy solution

[cloricus]

Download movies at work. Report your worksite. Rinse and repeat three times.

Do it on a country wide scale (say every /. reader in France) and bingo, law will either be thrown out or the economy will collapse.

Re:what about my wife and children?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh okay then. Three warnings for each one in your family.
And three for each of your neighbors using your deliberately-open wifi.
Open proxies on your machine don't count.

After that no excuses.

Re:what happened to the land of liberty?

[lloydchristmas759]

what happened to the land of liberty?

Possibly the same thing that happened to UTF-8 encoder of your web browser?

Re:one funny side-effect

[fluch]

If you download Britney Spears ... you are already punished enough by what you get! No need to disconnect here...

Re:one funny side-effect

[aceofspades1217]

They should have a zero tolerance policy for downloading Britney Spears....one strike and your out.

After all it is for your own good. If your downloading Britney spears than you just don't deserve to have the privilege of using a internet connection.

Now that would be an anti net neutrality law I could stand behind!

It's just France..

[sTERNKERN]

And they had no revolutions in the last 40 years... something has to be done there.

Re:Democracy

[kdemetter]

In other news , French telco's are going broke , as apparently , most of their high bandwidth users where pirates .

In related News:

[AlgorithMan]

France is purporting to take a hard line on streets. According to timesonline.co.uk, a new measure approved yesterday by the French Cabinet would take away the cars of those, caught speeding. 'There is no reason that the streets should be a lawless zone," President Sarkozy told his Cabinet yesterday as it endorsed the "three-strikes-and-you're-out" scheme that from next January will hit illegal drivers where it hurts. Under a cross-industry agreement, car-manufacturers must cut off access for up to a year for third-time offenders.'

Re:Democracy; and the easy solution

[Dan541]

Just more reasons to use your neigbours WiFi

Re:Wrong answer to the wrong problem

[Meumeu]

Delivery within Europa is the same as to UK (if I remember it right)....

You mean amazon delivers to the moons of the Jupiter [wikipedia.org]??

Does this mean

[koinu]

we need only one worm that starts "illegal" downloads on every PC and whole France as a country is offline? Where are the script kiddies when you need them?

You need to learn about your own stupidity by having PITA. That works best.

Re:one funny side-effect

[MichaelSmith]

Hey! Why does the word "guillotine" jump into my head?

Its funny I work for a french company and the Sales and Marketing department keeps sending emails around saying they have lost their guillotine. Personally I am happier for the S&M dept not to have a guillotine.

Re:Wrong answer to the wrong problem

[Anonymous Coward]

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO DELIVERIES THERE.

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I won't use so many caps. It's like yelling. I won't use so many caps. It's like yelling.

Re:I love Linux

[Fred_A]

ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:16:3E:72:42:c2

New MAC address!

I just change my IP address randomly from 192.168.1.2 all the way to 192.169.1.255 every day. They'll never find me ! Hahahaha !

Um, wait...

Re:Democracy; and the easy solution

[Random Destruction]

It wasn't me! It was the Lexmark X500n!

The RIAA confirms it!

Re:Reality to media industry: Accept the truth

[kramulous]

Your entire rant has been debunked by "machines running Windows CE ver 2020". Didn't you know that it's "the year of the Linux desktop" every year until then.

Too many bad assumptions. Yes, the media companies hire some smart people, but there is a much, much larger community of far more intelligent people punching out code to circumvent these restrictions.

Re:three warnings?

[VJ42]

Yes, I chose the extreme example. But it still shows that inappropriate speed kills, and downloading never does.

That's not true, if they legalised illegal downloading tomorrow, the **AA lawyers would starve on the streets. Please think of the poor lawyers.

Re:Democracy

[tehcyder]

I also download music then buy the album if I like it, and delete it if I don't.

Me too, but it's amazing how many albums I just can't make up my mind whether I like or not; so I think it's only fair not to delete them immediately, thus giving the artists another chance of my buying them in the future.