Re:France acts against net pirates
by joelthelion on Thursday October 06, 2011 @09:42AM
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>Why? Whatever the criticisms, they seem to have a highly effective strategy.
If by effective, you mean "which doesn't work at all". After two years and millions spent, they are about to sue 60 people, over the whole country. People have simply moved from P2P between individuals to paying shady services for streaming.
I don't see how this qualifies as a success.
Re:France acts against net pirates
by Silhouette on Thursday October 06, 2011 @05:21PM
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Your entire argument rests on the premises that (a) it is better to have people misbehave and then sue them than to have them behave in the first place, and (b) this isn't dissuading anyone, it's just moving them to a different medium. I don't buy your theory in either case, and even if the latter is true, you're just arguing that HADOPI works when it has a target in its sights so they should be empowered to go after "shady services for streaming" as well as the P2P networks they are currently mandated to investigate.
Why? Whatever the criticisms, they seem to have a highly effective strategy.
> Trying to end filesharing is like going after marijuana users, it's a lost war whether you like it or not.
They can't guarantee to end it, any more than making anything illegal guarantees no-one will break the law anyway.
But if they can reduce it significantly, and thus provide a more credible level of protection to copyright holders, then that is still moving in the right direction. It is more in keeping with the law, which in a civilised society is usually a good thing, not least because if the law is bad then effective mass enforcement will make it necessary to fix that law instead of ignoring its flaws and having ordinary citizens risk legal sanctions by breaking it anyway.