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France claims its attempts to stop 'piracy' are a success
FRENCH ATTEMPTS to stop 'piracy' are apparently working, a report to be published next week will claim.
According to Torrent Freak, more than 736,000 'first strike' and 62,000 'second strike' letters have been sent out by French authorities, with 165 on their 'third strike'.
A report due to be published by IFPI next week will suggest that Hadopi is a success that has contributed to a 22.5 per cent increase in purchases from Apple's Itunes.
The French put in place a 'three strikes' scheme in January 2010 to try to cut down on unauthorized filesharing.
Hadopi is the agency tasked with administering the system, which started sending out initial warnings in October 2010, and since then has provided statistics on how many first, second and third strikes there have been.
However, next week's report will be the first for a recording label supported study that claims users are swapping filesharing for paid methods of downloading media content.
It will apparently show that during the last 18 months Hadopi has led to a 22.5 per cent increase in purchases from Itunes and an extra €13.8m for the French market.
With the UK's Digital Economy Act coming into effect later this year, UK authorities will be sure to be watching closely, as they also want to use the 'three strikes' approach. µ
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As long as pirates keep getting busted, it's a good thing. They'll never stop all piracy but at least they can teach some people how not to act.
I think the increased iTunes download rate is simply based on the simple fact that more and more people gets iPhone/iPad, not because of the decreased pirate downloads...
Stupidity and denial have never been a good legal defense as pirates learn daily. If you're dumb enough to pirate you're dumb enough to go to jail or be heavily fined.
95% of the world has no problem with copyright laws so the pirates don't have a snowball chance in Hell of legalizing piracy.
Since when do the french consider an american monopolizing company winning out a 'success'?
"We achieved a drain of our funds to the US, during economic malaise, yay"
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@leo "the RIAA and MPAA do not write or enforce copyright laws"
Seriously dude, inform yourself a bit before making comments.
Make do with radio and free to air.
Don't pirate and at the same time don't buy music.
Much of their abusive powers came from buyers.
Don't buy so they wont have money and at the same time don't pirate to prove to them that our lives will continue without their music, don't be interested at all even if it is free.
Let's see if those big labels dont come tumbling down.
Three years ought to do it.
and then they said I couldnt take it back if I thought it was crap.
So much of it was crap I stopped buying.
It made me realise that when you have about two years of music you like you almost never get bored going through it again - but I do know people who hoard more downloads that they can watch/listen too in a lifetime.
And when you do you get bored theres about 40 million hours of out of copyright stuff to put into xml and share and play through a thousand amazing free computer programs.
Of course they probably didn't mention the "insert%" increase in local market swap meets,School yard disc sharing, And inviting friends to your house to watch a movie while only paying for $5 for all to see. If you can hear it or see it,It can be recorded and shared, There is no stopping it.
For those confused about copyright law the RIAA and MPAA do not write or enforce copyright laws. Copyright holders however by law must file suit against those who infringe copyright or they could lose their copyright.
As far as piracy goes, it's a crime for a reason. Just don't pirate and you'll have no issues with copyright law.
LOL @ Larry the RIAA stooge. No one actually believes that anyone that still has an intact brain would genuinely hold such a perverse and out of touch view, so don't waste your time posting...
If they bring that crap in over here, everyone will simply subscribe to a VPN. There are some great free (advert driven) ones.
I can recommend expatshield.com, but there are many other free ones. And plenty of pay ones.
Im sure thats what most people do in France too.
A golden opportunity exists to prosecute pirates and make them pay for their failure to comply with the laws of society. A 10,000 Euro per copy fine should do the trick. No money, then they go to jail.
They aren't stopping piracy. They're stopping *casual* pirates, who stood a reasonable chance of buying a legitimate version of what they've downloaded, once they find they like it.
The serious pirates are working over encrypted end-to-end links and aren't getting noticed. And they're publishing hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of pirate DVDs and CDs in Asia, making huge amounts of money.
The only people being hurt by Hadopi are ordinary, mostly-honest citizens.
What about the people that download stuff to make sure they aren't buying crap? I've made a lot of my movie theater decisions based on cam video that was horrific quality but gave me a better idea of what type of movie it was. Additionally, I bought the entire first season of Tosh.O because I was able to view a torrent of the first episode. Lastly, I have a friend who decides whether or not to buy things on Steam by downloading a cracked version first.
Maybe somebody needs to put out an anonymous survey to see how many people "pirate" simply to decide whether something is worth buying.