Paul... Every time an article about piracy appears on the INQ you pop your head out to say how evil Pirates are and how God has a special place in Hell for them.
Here's your last bashing: 

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/30/law-professor-calls-riaa

It's becoming clear you are a corporate stoolie lurking this site on the bequest of the MAFIAA.
Give up. Your rhetoric will not convince us that suing children and old ladies is right.

Holy cow! This is so scary! Gosh, these French must have some really advanced alient technology to be considering this!
I mean seriously, think about it. The average pirate is far more tech savvy than the dullards passing these kinds of useless laws. A large portion of these "criminals" have the ability to hack neighborhood WAPs, change their modem's MAC address, get celluar internet, sattlelite internet. Hell if I were a french Pirate and this law affected me I think spoofing the French Chancellor's IP would be a lark... there's endless possibilities.
People need to understand, the internet is not a right? Neither is AIR, but try to keep me from breathing! You can't put this genie back in the bottle. Unless you can EMP every PC on the planet, you will not be able to stop anyone from getting on the net. Live with THAT!

The only right we have is making choices! Make a good choice you get privileges, make a bad choice you loose them.

I agree with there is no God given rights to the internet or to guns or to kill or to abuse and other BAD choices and get rewarded for them!?

Anybody that aspire to have rights over others having privileges in the end looses big time.

How do they loose? Simple the more they want and cannot be at two or more places at once, how can they be present in multitasking action without crashing and burning? Like smoking drinking texting at the steering wheel. But just life in general beside driving a car can be elemental here too.

"There is no God given right to use the Internet" says Paul. Come to think of it, there's no right for you to use piece of paper or to mail letters. They're just tools of a civilized society.

The French can't do this because IP addresses are not fine enough to identify individuals -- there is insufficient evidence of wrongdoing. Maybe if they adopted IPv6 first? (The Chinese are big on v6...)

I resent people piously calling themselves "Law Abiding" and proposing all sorts of nastyness on people who they think are obviously not law-abiding. I'm law-abiding -- I don't pirate media -- but I don't want to run the risk of being found guilty of something until I've proved myself innocent (somehow) (to some corporate office's satisfaction)(which usually involves giving them money -- i.e. extortion).

"There is no God given right to access the Internet" no there aint paul but you aint paying attention... bet you'll be the first to cry when i swipe yer ip do a fair bit of pirating and leavieyou internetless and possible in court! :P

Ever hear of dynamic IP allocation?
Ever hear of NAT?
Ever hear of open access points?
Ever hear of wardriving?

Who is going to decide? The ISPs? They are not going to report the majority of their users, it's a surefire way of going bankrupt. These days even elderly people can use limewire and torrents without knowing the reprecussions.
This is just asking for a lawsuit. The possibility of a false positive is too big.

Speaking of which lemme reset my modem so I get a new IP. I don't like ones that end in 92...

Well being that it is common place for people to setup WiFi networks without passwords how do they ensure that the person they are accusing to be pirating is actually the pirate. All this will do is punish unsuspecting individuals since most of the true pirates out there will copy stuff any way they can and stealing WiFi is the quickest and easiest way to do so. I also would like to note scenario 2 which involves zombied systems that do the bidding of the technomancer whom controls them.

Now they are going to see that technology is not black or white and making such laws will cause much more unrest and cost more money than what's being saved by the media industries.

When the RIAA moan at the French ISP, and the French ISP send the warning to the blind internet user regarding his downloading of Charlie Chaplin movies, does he have any right to appeal?

If so, given the RIAAs reputation for being about as accurate as a blunderbus, I can see ISPs having to staff up to deal with the appeals process.

Despite what they believe in Brussels, there is no God given right to access the Net. It's nice to see the French take the lead on banishing pirate scum from the Net. Despite the Smack talk of many in the media, law abiding citizens are not going to allow pirates to go unpunished for their crimes.

Get over it.

So, they are sending "you committed crime" notification letter without court hearings? And the only evidence is connecting between two IP addresses took place and one IP address has “illegal” files stored in directory? Hmmm, this makes whole Internet illegal due to possibility for any file transferred between servers and terminals could be pronounced illegal anytime and anywhere. What about other IP address sharers and users who punished by default? And how people can see if file they touch is illegal?

Most of the french population is against this idea of filtering and cutting internet.
But it's a known fact that our politics work for the music mafia and doesn't care about the rights of the population.

If we don't secure our line and someone manages to use it to download something we will get cut from the internet.

It will be fun when sites like thepiratebay that uses random fake ip to confuse anti p2p agency hits a french ip and gets the poor guy cut from the internet. 
It will be even more fun if they use mostly fake french ip the day that law pass, to show how ridiculous that law is.