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Originally Posted by HarryT
Permit me to ask you, then: if you do not accept logging of an IP address as prima facie evidence of illegal activities, what evidence would you accept?
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given in this particular context the difficulty of distinguishing illegal activities from legal ones (what about people using bittorrent for completely legal ends such as downloading linux distros ? what about me, a webdesigner, using a lot of bandwidth to upload image-heavy maquettes for my clients / to the printer ? what about the many many independent artists (musicians and writers, to start with) relying on promotional sharing of their work to gain visibility ? how are they going to tell the difference between those packets and some illegal harry potter ebooks ??), i'm not sure i'd accept *any* evidence, but more importantly i think this is going about the problem completely backwards, as do the majority of people including the european parliament, the isps, the opposition party of the government, most countries, the general public...
rather than persecuting individuals who may OR MAY NOT be engaging in illicit filesharing, assuming guilt rather than innocence on shaky evidence at best, and spending countless millions to set up a technically flawed and thoroughly unproductive system, the governement should be looking at better ways of getting money to the content creators and encourage new business models and new creation.
it's important to remember that the law in question is actually called "Projet de loi favorisant la diffusion et la protection de la création sur internet" or "
Proposed law to favorise the diffusion and protection of creation on the internet". i don't see any means in the current proposed implementation either to encourage *or* protect creation, only a lot of pointless (because it doesn't address any of the underlying causes) and expensive prosecution and harassment of individuals who may or may not have done anything wrong at all.