France Plans on using Spyware to Prevent Piracy

newteevee.com — lans for this type of surveillance surfaced this week when a paper authored by the French Hadopi agency, which was put in place to police the French Internet and prevent copyright infringement as part of the country’s three strikes legislation, leaked online. Aug 5, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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tehubergeek Aug 6, 2010

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France Plans on using Spyware to Prevent Privacy.

I fixed the headline.

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mwtapp Aug 6, 2010

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Sounds like a headline out of "Brave New World".

jaybob Aug 6, 2010

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"The paper states that the use of such an application would have to be voluntary, and that account holders would have to have a chance to disable the application at their will."

Who the hell would volunteer for this?

buttu4u Aug 6, 2010

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What happened to that freedom of expression. When someone is always spying on you how could you be able to express yourself.

To prevent piracy develop some other means rather than compromising the freedoms of the people