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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
This really is neat:
scroll to: An element of Hadopi which hasn’t received much or enough attention as yet, is a section which specifies steps that can be taken by computer users to ensure that they will not be found liable under the new regime. The following is a rough translation of the relevant sections, taken from the text of the law in its current state, as found here. Bear with me, it is torturous, some explanatory notes are added in bold
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Mmmh. So what the law intends is to set up a meeting between security software vendors, antipiracy organizations and ISPs to decide what software you need to install on your machine, so that they can be sure that you behave yourself. If you don’t fancy installing their device, then you’ll just have to swallow any liability consequent to someone else using your machine or accessing your connection. If you agree to install a "security software program" of their approval on your PC that monitors your every move on said PC/connection, you are exempt from prosecution. (except, likely, if you misbehave.) Aside from that fact that "Free" "security" software will likely not be approved of by the "council" (gee, corporatism?), this does smack of a very, very strange requirement to vote through.
Talk about bold.
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That's completely insane!
EDIT: Oh and it looks like us Brits are not too far behind
http://torrentfreak.com/uk-entertain...irates-090512/
That's it, I've had just about as much as I can take from these corporate-shills and protectionist businesses. No more, not one red cent will they get from me. No more DVD's, CD's, MP3's even if they don't have DRM and they're priced at 1penny a piece. Same goes for books and the publishers that peddle them. They can suck it, the whole greedy corporate lot of them.