Download Pirated Copies – and you will be banned from the Internet

This is a very tough legislation: France just agreed on a new Internet Piracy Bill. If you violate piracy laws three times, you will be banned from the Internet up to an year: https://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/05/12/france-approves-internet-piracy-bill

Interesting approach

Roger

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 13, 2009
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• Anonymous
  May 17, 2009
  Peter van Dam, Your comment made me less than, um, something emotional, at the thought of family and friends just outright rating on you for downloading, distributing, and using illegal material downloaded from the Internet. This almost reminds me of the U.S.S.R. and their Big Brother is watching ideals... Where the Secret Police would have ordinary people spy on other people around them... I'm not saying your ideal is a bad idea, but that it makes such a touchy subject on the idea that Big Brother will play an even bigger role in our lives, if your proposed idea were to be implemented... It's like the ideals of freedom of privacy, etc, being slowly swept away...