Re:France acts against net pirates
by Silhouette on Thursday October 06, 2011 @08:51AM
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There are 650,000 people who have been sent the first warning letter.
Only 44,000 have been sent the second.
Only 60 have hit the third strike.
We can't tell from those figures alone whether they all represent people who were genuinely infringing copyright and who really aren't any more.
However, if they are even close, this will have been probably the most effective campaign to defend copyright in recent history, and it will have done it with very little actual damage to anyone, unlike say the lawsuit madness of the US or various recent DRM schemes.
Only 44,000 have been sent the second.
Only 60 have hit the third strike.
We can't tell from those figures alone whether they all represent people who were genuinely infringing copyright and who really aren't any more.
However, if they are even close, this will have been probably the most effective campaign to defend copyright in recent history, and it will have done it with very little actual damage to anyone, unlike say the lawsuit madness of the US or various recent DRM schemes.