Hadopi three strikes law hits another hurdle The controversial French 'three strikes' law has hit yet another delay - it has failed to win approval from the French data protection agency. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), which works to protect French citizens from technology which may breach their rights to privacy and personal and …
Look, you're proposing to punish the bill PAYER of an ISP connection when a USER of that connection has been ACCUSED 3 times.
* 3 times because 3 is a magic number after which allegations become facts.
* And the bill PAYER because they have influence over the Internet USER somehow.
Now look, it's even simpler than that, why not just ban any movie studios from making any more copyright complaints after they make 3 false claims. 3 because 3 is a magic number after which allegations become facts, and because if it's fair to ban people from the net for 3 minor infractions, then its fair to ban studios from copyright protection for 3 minor infractions.
Perhaps you disagree, but then I accuse you of being wrong, I accuse you of being wrong, I accuse you of being wrong.
What, are we magicians? Mind-readers? Or just stupid enough to put up with this shit?
We can Google for a song, find a site, download the MP3. Legal or not?
MySpace has a fairly new music section where we can make playlists of all sorts of songs. Legal or not?
Pop videos are on YouTube. Legal or not?
How about those on YouTube that appear to come from a profile which appears to be the real SonyBMG? Legal or not?
Last.fm. Legal or not?
My Livebox came in a black box which says on the front "téléchargez de la musique en toute légalité". NOTE there is *no* little star or dagger referring you to paragraphs of tiny print, or something saying "only from...". Therefore I have a Livebox and it says on the box that with my Livebox I can download music completely legally. Legal or not?
While peer-to-peer exists as a classic way of passing music around, there are many ways to download pretty much anything using nothing more than a basic web browser. Some of this stuff is provided unlawfully and some is provided by the copyright holders or those who have licenced it for the purpose. I bet to a lot of end-users the two will look alike. Rarely does one scream "THIS IS LEGAL" or "THIS IS NOT LEGAL". So before entering into this ridiculous three-strikes nonsense, I'd like to know from the morass available, how the hell are we supposed to tell the difference?
[posting from France, using a Livebox, with which evidently I can download all the music I want without breaking any laws--it says so on the box...]
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