The only good pirate is in prison or dead. Hang the scum.

Wow. I know where I'll be vacationing next year. VIVA les WEP! VIVA les TKIP!
I think this is wonderful, punish the stupid! If you aren't using WPA2 with RADIUS prepare to be disconnected!
If I were french I'd start war driving every member of parliment that voted for that law's neighborhood and get the ball rolling through some good old traceable bit torrents. Buy some 100$ old laptops off ebay, encase them in plastic, plug them into an external power outlet of the bonehead's own house, queue up about 100GB of current telesyncs and bury the whole mess under some leaves. Let's see, 285 members voted yes; that's 2,900$ if you weren't able to recover a single laptop. Worth every penny if you ask me! :)

The mpaa (media pimps of america) etc. The have nothing to do with art or creativity. When love is corrupted by financial interests, it becomes 'prostitution', this is exactly what happens with the Hollywood studios and other media lobby groups. The have enslaved a large number of creative persons into some exploitation contracts, just like the compromised people that become sex workers.... all the profits go to the pimps.... who bribe the corrupt politicians into submission.... the deserve nothing morally....

Always thought the recording industries were run by Nazis, given how fast France rolled over is proof.

"Soon downloads will be through SSL & then what?"

hehehehe so true

BTW, aren’t BBS back in fusion again. You know, those lovable shared folders on private computers that do not advertise the IP address on web browsers, have the login screen but let you with any credentials?

how long before Nicolas Sarkozy wifi is hacked and he is kicked off the net

Someone just needs to find someone doing file sharing at every government office or hack the wifi at the offices to do the so. Under that new law the entire government would have to have it's internet cutoff for a year making them realise just how stupid they are.

Better yet, everyone should download and distribute songs...Let's see if Mr. Sarkozy will put all France out of the internet.

lets see if I have this right.
1: Were allowed to access the internet.
2: We are manipulated through the mass media marketing that we can't possibly live with out the internet.
3: We are convinced by the corporations that now control the internet they will slap us silly if we don't abide by their rules and use a California idea of 3 strikes your out (used to permanently incarcerate criminals)whom then will disconnect us from the internet.
I say to the people to go on strike and disconnect from the internet. You want to see how fast the law will be changed. Once you realize how much bleeding the corporations will go through and how your business is tied in with the internet, it will be the Corporations who will ask the government to change the law not you. Right know its only the equivalent of the RIAA in France that has pushed this forward.

This will make wardriving fun again. Now they punish those that are hacked. Brilliant!
Most people have no clue about WEP, WPA-TKIP/AES. I bet that most of the idiots who voted this law have no clue what it is all about. Until their router is hacked.

La musique et les industries du cinéma sont des houlettes. Et j'ai vu le film d'Habitant de Haute-Écosse Ricky ... c'était la merde!

You table a ridiculously draconian bill, knowing full well that parliament is going to bat it right out of the ballpark.

Then you introduce your watered-down "compromise" bill, which, while still unpalatable, *could* have been much worse - and is therefore gratefully accepted.

Oldest one in the book.

As for the movie industry? Well, all I would say is that sueing dead people and cutting off childrens internet connections probably isnt going to turn "I Can Do Bad All by Myself" into "Casablanca".

What will happen if this becomes the norm is that file sharing e.g. torrenting will go even more underground & will be forced to evolve even more sophisticated methods to pass filters & monitors.

Encrypted communication, encrypted handshakes, invite only forums...this is already standard. Soon downloads will be through SSL & then what?

Media companies are powerless to do anything about it, all they can hope for is legislation and scare tactics.

ISPs that will not bend to the demands of such forced conditions to spy on their clients will be the most popular. Those ISPs that actually enforce these new laws will see a steady drop in subscribers as the news of other people being cut off or warned about file sharing grows.

Media companies fail to understand that their product cannot be forced on people. When I buy a shirt, or a hard drive, I can return it for any reason within 7 days...what if I don't like your music or film? what if I think the trailer was fab and the movie was crap?
I get shafted.

Bottom line is, you cannot force me to pay. I will get it for free and if I think it's worth money, I'll pay.

Best of luck with suing single mothers & dead people hundreds of thousands for file sharing.

She got it right when she said "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

It's been said before but at best this will only deter casual piracy. Ultimately it just gives the coders our there even more reason to develop fully anonymous, distributed and encrypted P2P technologies.

the uk will follow suit in no time. hopfully us scots can become independant and fall under the radar before it happens.