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- aflaks, on 06/18/2008, -8/+311You can add the war on Piracy to the list of wars France has lost.
- btschul, on 06/18/2008, -18/+212***** France
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -6/+124This is really troublesome, its the start of a decline in global freedoms for all of us. Of course 'stealing' is wrong but sharing what you have rights to is not. This is way to tight on that razors edge for my liking.
- mcsnuggles, on 06/18/2008, -14/+108ha! I'm gonna love how they're gonna police the Internet. I'm more disturbed though by the industry's obsession with making out that bittorrent downloaders are somehow pirates when industry released products fail to work correctly with my own equipment? they think that selling 79p 128k AAC tracks is the way forward (compared to the uncompressed sound of a CD, I'm not a techie just like to get what I pay for) Catalogues of digital music have been on the web since 1998. So why is france going to suddenly make everything available without locks even relevant.
I have one question to the IFPI, MPAA, whatever you call yourselves. With all the in your face advertising on tv, radio, Music channels on tv, internet radio, free music on myspace, youtube, at the moment where is the value in buying one song when another just comes out an hour later? consumption of media is disgustingly fast and the record companies/tv, studios fault, how many series of the x factor, and all the other pointless talent shows must their be, when the people who make the money are the ones who perform live and make their own careers. why are you stupid organizations going after people who's phone lines are doing what they're designed for... a service. My only wish is the IFPI and MPAA actually put money where their mouths are to give people fiber optic lines like in Korea, they are living in the future compared to us with 100 meg per second lines. considering good HD content is around 40mb/s it's not really that hard to achieve. Then they can be in charge of all their adverts and I STILL wont be buying the ***** they show me, or seeing the ***** they want to see, or the ***** they want me to hear! I'm not an angry person i swear.... - Aeomyr, on 06/19/2008, -4/+94The list of wars France has been in is the same list.
- TritonX, on 06/18/2008, -0/+74It will be interesting to know how they will implement this. Is anyone using the torrent protocol be visited by the police? I just hope they will need some kind of proof other than you are using torrents or lots of bandwith, because that would be invasion of privacy.
- m0zzie, on 06/19/2008, -5/+78go to google, search "French Military Victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky."
i love the internet. - omgwhataguy, on 06/19/2008, -4/+63If you didn't do anything wrong, then why worry? It's not like the government ever makes a mistake! They'll only catch terrorists.
- Hidama, on 06/19/2008, -2/+52"However, it has run into opposition from a range of bodies including the state data protection agency, consumer and civil liberties groups and the European Parliament. Big web companies, including Google, and Dailymotion, the video-sharing firm, refused to sign up to the 40-member industry accord last November."
Thank you, Google. - highlymodified, on 06/19/2008, -1/+42When your wife is that ***** hot, there's no reason to be this uptight.
- DigitAl56K, on 06/19/2008, -1/+40Every WEP user in France is going to get f'd overnight as their neighbors use their networks to download.
BTW - Screw the government, the people need to set up their own networks. Wired, Wireless, however you want to do it. I'm tired of the governments and ISPs laying down the law. Nothing stops us from making our own Internet. - rtaibah, on 05/22/2009, -1/+37At least senator Ted Stevens will be happy, he will get his "Internets" slightly earlier
- matt247, on 06/18/2008, -7/+42Note to self: Don't visit France
- protogenxl, on 06/19/2008, -1/+31Merde
- bonjourmr, on 06/19/2008, -1/+30I sense we need to create a second internet using our own cables.
- aussiessuck, on 06/19/2008, -1/+30for sale:
French rifles, never used. Dropped once. - lolinyerface, on 06/19/2008, -1/+29In related news, France internet usage has dropped a staggering 98%.
- BrettFromTibet, on 06/18/2008, -3/+30iTunes sucks...! Over-zealous copyright laws suck!
Companies need to offer affordable, lossless digital media that isn't locked up and crippled! - inactive, on 06/19/2008, -4/+30Please... give them a chance to surrender.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -3/+27May the whole of the internets fart in the general direction of france.
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -0/+23Perma Banned?
- newl, on 06/19/2008, -1/+24/mode #world +b *!*@*.fr
- anonymous1986, on 06/19/2008, -5/+28France out of euro 2008, yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -2/+24This will be effective. Outlaw peoples internet access so that they just steal/borrow access from other locations; thus forcing them to be more anonymous. Sarkozy has replaced Ashcroft as my hero.
/no sarcasm - Travelsonic, on 06/19/2008, -2/+24Funny, that's what I'm reading... from you. STFU.
- ArcaneGlyph, on 06/19/2008, -0/+21LOL BAN you from the internet.
Let the sarcasm begin:
Guess that firewall in China stops them from accessing the internet fully. I've never seen any programs that get you around that in 3 easy clicks.
You are banned from Starbucks or Owning a laptop or Owning an EVDO Cell Phone (or other net complaint phone).
You'll never figure out how to hack someone's wireless and get them banned too.
You are also Banned from working for anything in the business or tech sector that has net access as well. I also wonder if a corporation has 3 people violate the act while in the employ if the corp would also be banned? Fair is fair after all.
Practical application of this would be retarded as I bet 90% of the entire IT/ Tech workforce would be banned from the internet in under a week.. then who will France call to fix their computers? (Cause they sure won't be able to contact them through a web site or email).
In later news this week France's Military and Government were hacked by a 12 year old in the UK as we had banned everyone who knew how to stop him and so none was there to tell us that Admin and Password were stupid defaults to protect our data with.
Might as well just turn off the entire country's internet access.. it's the only way to be safe..
We're gonna party like it's 1955! - gowingsgo, on 06/19/2008, -5/+26France surrenders to MPAA/RIAA/IFPI (are we really shocked?). I swear, Mr. Peanut could walk into town with a gun and France would surrender.
- bxblox, on 06/19/2008, -0/+21dear digg,
lets work on some autowrap - NacaV, on 06/19/2008, -3/+22When half the dam country is banned from the Internet, I'm sure they will end this "three strikes" nonsense. Sarkozy is a FAIL.
- akohut, on 06/19/2008, -1/+19This won't stick. Just a scare tactic. Even if it wasn't, there will always be ways around dumbass laws like this. All it takes is a little bit of time. Face it, music, movies and games are free now, whether the industries like it or not.
- NightVortez, on 06/19/2008, -8/+26Unless you own production rights to the product I'm pretty sure it's illegal. As an example, just because you pay $10 for an album doesn't mean you own the rights to every song in the album, you just have rights to listen to it. It's not the hard of a concept, as much as I love pirating, it's silly to deny the fact that it's an infringement on property rights.
- DavidGuetta9, on 06/19/2008, -0/+17Why? Goddamn it. Why us? Why do we have to be the first country to submit to the MPAA/RIAA/IFPI? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?!!!
I am at a loss of words on this incredibly stupid decision by Sarko - despil, on 06/18/2008, -0/+17Start of? Start of happened about 7 years ago.
Big question is, how they will make a difference between legal and illegal downloads.
So far they can't, or at least they don't bother. - inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+163 strikes? i'd be out in under 5 minutes
- BlackCow, on 06/19/2008, -3/+16***** THE RIAA!
- quez, on 06/19/2008, -1/+14Monsieur Sarkozy,
Vous êtes un connard.
Sincèrement,
Tout le monde. - poiuytrewq44, on 06/19/2008, -1/+14I hates side-scroll bars.
- F9Phoenix, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12Good luck with that one.
- Ajajadude, on 06/19/2008, -1/+13No, it sucks even worse. Having a hot piece of ass who won't touch you is torture.
- JoshuaLowe, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12Did he endorse the bad grammar of "your" out instead of "you're" out?
- Acglaphotis, on 06/19/2008, -1/+13But you can still fap to her.
- Dominatus, on 06/19/2008, -1/+13Better analogy would be being banned from the town the shop is in.
- BOFH2, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12had to say it. Sorry. Speak from experience?
- Travelsonic, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11< / sarcasm > ?
- snotrokit, on 06/19/2008, -2/+13now THAT was funny.
- sarge96, on 06/19/2008, -2/+13BAISEZ LE RIAA!
- MarrowMan, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11what did we do?
- Ganja420, on 06/19/2008, -2/+13Stevens is the "tubes" and "dumptruck" guy
- aenegeling, on 06/19/2008, -6/+17...blame canada
- dullnation, on 06/19/2008, -1/+12You mean using our own tubes?
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