June 19, 2008

France gets tough on down loaders

Anyone residing in France and likes to download the odd bit of illegal music or maybe a new film that had yet to be released, then you could be heading for trouble as from January 2009. As there has been a new law past which endorses the three strikes and you are out policy.

The French Government believe that the internet should not be a lawless zone where people can carry on as they please. In order to enforce these plans the French have created a new £15 million agency known as the High Authority for Copyright Protection and Dissemination of Works in the Internet (HADOPI).

This follows the cross industry agreement where the internet service providers have to cut off the internet access for any period up to a year to those offenders who have been warned and yet decided to take no notice, after the third warning that is that!

Source [Times]