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French pirates 'dodge' tough laws

timeless

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lm sure this post is going to turn out to be an "I TOLD YOU SO" debate, but still it warranted posting for amusement value of how governments continually forget that in order to understand technology that they have to get off their posteriors and actually take the time to think about it.

Some forms of piracy are on the rise in France despite the passing of a tough anti-piracy law, suggests a study.

Full story can be found @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8592444.stm


lmao, just goes to prove that regardless of the country, government officials and such dont really care about learning how technology works they would rather just have the usual backhanders for introducing new laws and force the ISP industry to fit the bill for unworkable solutions to a problem that the recording industry should be dealing with (after all the recording industry wants to limit where we can buy their content by allowing us only old fashioned methods of content delivery because they can make more money from it)
 
Ive been saying this for months, so you are quite correct timeless, to the government all I have to say..

"I TOLD YOU SO.."


Ahem :D
 
lol, and this is why trained monkeys could run the country better than who we currently have in power now..
 
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The recent Panorama programme that covered piracy talked about options when the Digital Economy Bill becomes law e.g. anonymous P2P, but frankly it's as simple as switching to newsgroups (in the first instance at least - other methods will appear over time). :hrmph:
 
To be fair, and this wasn't mentioned clearly in the BBC's article, the French law might have passed but it has not yet had time to be fully implemented. Since a lot of people don't pay attention to what their government is doing then we might not see the full picture for another year or two.

However in other countries where stricter rules have past many people do indeed swap to different methods, effectively going underground where they cannot be so easily be monitored or measured in a statistical sense. I suspect those big sales increases that the UK government has promised will not materialise, at least not above the markets current rate of legal digital download growth.

Assuming that every pirated music or film download is equal to one lost sale, well.. that's just dumb.
 
still assuming here, but l guess there counting uploads as well from the person serving the material (that would pad their statistics dont you think?)

still l think the only way their sales will increase is by offering online methods of serving media users wish to see.. l myself would rather watch a movie on my computer than on TV, because l have more control over what my PC does (or at least thats how l feel)
 
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