Should the French anti-piracy laws be replicated?
By laylomo
@laylomo (165)
United States
November 24, 2007 8:59pm CST
The anti-piracy body came to be from an alliance formed between France's music producers, movie makers, and net firms. This body has wide ranging powers; recently, the firm can deny those who illegally share files the right to the Internet. The firm said its main objective was not to target major websites or groups, but to target those who casually pirate. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the deal was a "decisive moment for the future of a civilized Internet". Net firms will monitor what their customers are doing and pass on information of persistent pirate to the new independent body. Those identified will get a warning and then be threatened to either being cut off or suspended from the Internet if they do not cease file-sharing.
The new policy has been praised by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) as a new step "to help win the war on online piracy"
Do you think this type of policy should be implemented in the United States (or the country you live in)? What do you think of this policy?
3 responses
@figuah (81)
• Iceland
25 Nov 07
no i dont think this is the right way,piracy on the internet have helped sales of many things like albums and movies,i even know of one small budget movie studio that thanked the page that ripped their movie and leaked it on the net because now the movie is getting great reviews on imdb,new tv shows would have been cancelled much earlier if it werent for piracy so in my oppinion if the goverment where i live would take up this law then movie sales and cd sales would drop
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
25 Nov 07
I think that any system that gives a private organization power to try and convict citizens is fascism.
There are already ways to combat piracy that require no changes in laws or any other governmental actions.
All the recording companies have to do is find out the top 100 or so songs and bands shared. Create fake files that are the same size as the songs. Flood the file sharing programs with these fakes.
If each label did that, before long, a huge part of the files out there would be fakes... and within a year or so, the problem would be basically solved.
@raychill (6525)
• United States
25 Nov 07
I think there is some good to piracy. Okay, well not piracy per say. But for instance, I was reading an article about Gossip Girl. How it's got really low ratings, but that's because ratings don't tell you the whole picture. It's one of the top downloaded from Itunes and other sites. People tivo it, which isn't in the ratings. THings like that.
People download stuff, like it...then buy the real thing. It's like getting a preview for free.
Granted it doesn't always work, but I think it has some good.
