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Well, this is embarrassing. The famously anti-piracy French President Nicholas Sarkozy is learning today that occupants of the Presidential Palace have been very naughty torrent-users. According to everyone’s favorite new tattletale, YouHaveDownloaded.com, six separate copyrighted works have been downloaded at Sarkozy’s home. How’s that three-strikes law working out?
It was Sarkozy himself who pushed so hard for the aforementioned law. Under this system, anyone found to have downloaded copyrighted material three time would be kicked off the Internet, and their name added to a blacklist to keep them off. At present, the Presidential estate is at double that limit. Content downloaded includes pre-release copies of Tower Heist, Arthur Christmas, and music by The Beach Boys.
There are roughly 60 French citizens on their last strike right now. If anything, this law, and Sarkozy’s unruly guests just serve to remind us that BitTorrent is not private. Do you think they ought to cut off the Presidential Palace? Fair’s fair, right?
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t.y.wan
December 16, 2011 at 4:45am
Someone obviously forgot using Bittorrent requires encrytion now-a-days...
A lot of ISP "threathens" to do something, but yet, they love the money they can get and would not like to apply and enforce the "laws".
Why bother, it is not like as if you can buy anything online with a reasonable price.
Like in asia, you are pretty much out of luck in buying the cream of gaming notebooks manufactured by Clevo (Even it "was" / "is" a Taiwan company)
Like in the US, you just simply cannot find a legal way to watch Japanese anime like they do provide FOR FREE in Japan.
Like in the UK, you simply just cannot buy high end computer parts without the super large price margin (try "major" computer stores, even without VAT, the price is still way higher than in US and or Canada).
Joji
December 16, 2011 at 6:22am
Yo Bossun,
It's pretty much the same thing in Japan. Japan's anti-piracy laws are so friggin strict, it's ridiculous. It's as if it's a huge crime.
someuid
December 15, 2011 at 5:02pm
Is anyone really surprised? He's one of the elite. The laws he writes don't apply to him. Laws are for little people to remind them they are little and disposable. Just the same as Hollywood stars who get to turn themselves in for drug rehab when the rest of us would get sent to jail.
We are living in a Matrix world more than we realize.
matthewrohaly
December 15, 2011 at 3:37pm
Typo in the fifth line, YouHaveDownlaoded.com should be YouHaveDownloaded.com
