Damn, how could those idiots accept such a law ?
I can see many Frenchies emigrating to Belgium(Wallonia) now.
Cutting off someones internet is like cutting them off from life for a year, it's essential for many people to make their money on or to manage their things in. Who is the government to prevent people to connect to each other ?
And how on earth will they be regulating stuff like this? What about pre-pay anonymous gprs, umts and hsdpa ? How do they expect to differ between legal p2p and illegal p2p content. Remember many things use p2p to funtion, not just torrents: Apps like xfire use p2p to deliver updates, voip apps, various games. And there are many legal torrent uses too, for example the relic Company of Heroes updater or WoW or others or various 3rd party or freeware things which can't afford enough server capacity. What about filesharing through newsgroups, rapidshare, etc ? This just seems like a major logistical fiasco to me only costing money to taxpayers and bringing in actually nothing positive to society, only a pain in the arse and a lot of suffering.
It's nowhere near simple, how will they determine what's legal and what not. How far can they investigate before it clashes with privacy laws.
They aren't thieving anything. A thief takes something away. Pirates never ever steal anything, they simply copy data.
And what about this :
If this is true then the French gov has no legal point to stand on.
Stoofa, you seem to have a very short sighted view of the situation and seem to have no idea how complicated and hard something like this would be to achieve and make work, both the logistics and legal side of this will be a complete pain in the arse and a mahooosive waste of tax money ( much bigger than the tax brought in by extra sales of music, games, films, etc...) which means the French government accepted something that will actually bring in no extra money to society thus a law made up by a complete retard. I have every faith in that the system will fail or will be abolished in a while in France, due to being expensive, ineffective ( true pirates will adapt), and nearly impossible to carry out correctly ( as said before, they can't possibly realistically check/monitor what's legal and what's not.).
I can see many Frenchies emigrating to Belgium(Wallonia) now.
Cutting off someones internet is like cutting them off from life for a year, it's essential for many people to make their money on or to manage their things in. Who is the government to prevent people to connect to each other ?
And how on earth will they be regulating stuff like this? What about pre-pay anonymous gprs, umts and hsdpa ? How do they expect to differ between legal p2p and illegal p2p content. Remember many things use p2p to funtion, not just torrents: Apps like xfire use p2p to deliver updates, voip apps, various games. And there are many legal torrent uses too, for example the relic Company of Heroes updater or WoW or others or various 3rd party or freeware things which can't afford enough server capacity. What about filesharing through newsgroups, rapidshare, etc ? This just seems like a major logistical fiasco to me only costing money to taxpayers and bringing in actually nothing positive to society, only a pain in the arse and a lot of suffering.
It's nowhere near simple, how will they determine what's legal and what not. How far can they investigate before it clashes with privacy laws.
They aren't thieving anything. A thief takes something away. Pirates never ever steal anything, they simply copy data.
Of course, internet is an essential part of life. Many people live from conducting busisness over the internet
And what about this :
If this is true then the French gov has no legal point to stand on.
Stoofa, you seem to have a very short sighted view of the situation and seem to have no idea how complicated and hard something like this would be to achieve and make work, both the logistics and legal side of this will be a complete pain in the arse and a mahooosive waste of tax money ( much bigger than the tax brought in by extra sales of music, games, films, etc...) which means the French government accepted something that will actually bring in no extra money to society thus a law made up by a complete retard. I have every faith in that the system will fail or will be abolished in a while in France, due to being expensive, ineffective ( true pirates will adapt), and nearly impossible to carry out correctly ( as said before, they can't possibly realistically check/monitor what's legal and what's not.).
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