French ISPs Pushing Back Against Hadopi; Threaten To Ignore Requests
from the like-you-didn't-see-this-coming dept
This should hardly come as a surprise, but as the French "three strikes" agency Hadopi tries to push forward, it's facing some serious resistance from French ISPs, who might out-and-out ignore the law's requirements in a boycott against the plan. The main issue, of course, is that they feel that the law puts too big an expense on them, without adequate compensation for the work. Basically, the government is asking them to be under-paid police for the entertainment industry. The ISPs are asking for greater compensation to play that role, and if they don't get it, are apparently willing to fight the overall law in court. It seems that, after years of fighting to get the law passed, the French government still might not be over the final hurdle to kicking people off the internet for file sharing.
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It's not like the USA, where the tasks of the Federal and State governments are specifically laid out in our constitution. Instead, EU members can, so long as not abused, ignore EU law and claim sovereignty if they don't agree with a specific EU law/ruling.
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/sarc
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@1 the law is already happened
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No, that'd be pie....
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the cake is a lie!
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No, no. The pie is real. It's the female orgasm, THAT'S the myth....
(100 Dark Helmet points for 1st person to name the movie reference....)
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Actually, the final final hurdle will be the hardest. Getting people who were kicked off the net to magically start buying plastic discs again.
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Of course they had no cake to eat....and he didn't care and lost his head over the deal.
This lesson in French history brought to you by the letter L and the words, Louis XXIV.
So basically you guys agree with what i said just had issues with grammar again , ok be the editors edit and fix it up publish and take credit see copying is fun. Iif it makes the world better SO BE IT. ( emphasis mine ).
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tsk tsk
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"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly said by a French princess upon learning that the peasants had no bread. As brioche is a luxury bread enriched with eggs and butter, it would reflect the princess's obliviousness to the nature of a famine.
Although commonly attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette, there is no record of these words ever having been uttered by her; they first appear in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, his putative autobiographical work (completed in 1769, when Marie Antoinette was 13).
(And yes, it's wikipedia. And yes, it also cites references).
So yeah, it's all a big fat lie. Like cake.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette
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and it was in response to "there is is no bread" - so is used to refer to the obliviousness of the leadership.
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IT might take a few years ....
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100903/02011710885.shtml
see what i mean in that thread about what you do.
People with money like to buy things to show off too.
DO you want a hundred discs with no name on them to impress everyone or 50 with labels and covers and other stuff you can give them. The poor are lost to you give up and move on. QUIT wasting humanities resources on this when as i said like the fbi being removed form missing kids cases to protect IP, its now quickly showing its evil head.
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as one person once said wisely
p2p is not about piracy, its about marketing. if you can't give something away free , how are you going to sell it?
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La Resistance vs. la greve
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still think the phrase is about the royals obliviousness that you need the same products + some to make brioche.
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That is to say, the ISPs were already quite opposed to HADOPI because of the risk of increasing prices, but add to that taxes, and the HADOPI system is pretty moot.
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and im the pie president.
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Don't claim victory too soon though. A case was decided I believe last month on a similar issue of censoring an unlicensed offshore gambling website. (I believe you posted on it) The government was playing the same trick of just not having setup the reimbursement process. The ISPs tried to claim that since the reimbursement was not in place, the whole law was void. That reasoning was struck down in court. The case is being appealed, but what will happen is anyone's guess.
More generally, it is a common thing in France to pass laws and then just never come out with the executive order that would make the law effective. And I'm not speaking of signing the law the way the US President does it. It's more like if Congress was to create a position of power/influence and the President just never nominated anyone to it.
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