SPPF contends that French law says that any application that allows unauthorized file sharing is illegal. [...] The recent ruling found that, indeed, it's acceptable to extend French laws beyond its borders.
To quote the article:QuoteSPPF contends that French law says that any application that allows unauthorized file sharing is illegal. [...] The recent ruling found that, indeed, it's acceptable to extend French laws beyond its borders.
The way I understand it is, that it attacks heavy users of file sharing clients using P2P. So this would mean that generous uploaders, or just about anyone that is a BitTorrent, Limewire/Frostwire, etc. whore, would get hit with correspondence to say that you're abusing bandwidth while doing up a big "no-no" because they think that also you are stealing someone's hard creative work of music and/or film. Then they would impose the "three strikes...you're out" rule. After you have used them up, your internet connection will be severed.
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081114/1457012833.shtml
I got a brain freeze reading that article.
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To quote the article:QuoteSPPF contends that French law says that any application that allows unauthorized file sharing is illegal. [...] The recent ruling found that, indeed, it's acceptable to extend French laws beyond its borders.
I don't know what to think anymore...
I hope p2p brings about the death of these dinosaurs. Nobody likes em anyway ::)
You could say the same about external hard drives since i noticed adverts for them point out how many hours of movies you could fit on them. Which is actually quite funny cuz it's almost saying 'We know u got plenty of copyrighted films/movies on your comps, so we'll make some profit from the fact u need more storage space for them.'
I hope p2p brings about the death of these dinosaurs. Nobody likes em anyway ::)
That's true. Wasn't it WOW that used BT to distribute patches or something at one point?
I hope p2p brings about the death of these dinosaurs. Nobody likes em anyway ::)
That's true. Wasn't it WOW that used BT to distribute patches or something at one point?
Blizzard has used BitTorrent for WoW patch distribution since day 1 and is still using it.
When you think about it all, and how politics tries to restrict us in these matters...what was the point of broadband/high speed internet access, and most of all the point of trying to increase and look for new ways to be even faster, and then promote it's use to the rest of the world.No kidding, why didn't they just leave us all on dialup or ADSL just fast enough to send e-mail and conduct other business operations? It's like how they bitch about 10% of users using 50% of the bandwidth for a given ISP. Limit or eliminate those 10%, and they'll have 100% of the users using 60% of the bw. Way to spend money for now useless infrastructure, guys :roll: