France does something right for once
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/ article6478542.ece
Very cool. I hope other countries follow.
Very cool. I hope other countries follow.
Posted by Airjoe on Monday, June 15, 2009 02:21PM
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#3 Stephen001:
A lot of this legal position is inspired by wording in the EU's Directive on basic human rights, which extends the universal declaration of human rights by adding a basic right to speech and communication. Naturally any blanket denial of access to communication flies in the face of that. The UK had this discussion as part of a series of Parliamentary consultations with ISPs, people like the RIAA and civil liberties groups ... I think it was 6 months ago now. The consultation went much the way this ruling has, by concluding any such action would be contrary to the UK legal understanding of that directive.
3 strikes and you're bandwidth limited is still definitely a possibility though.
As far as EU countries go, France gets it right a lot. As they have a nationalised backbone they voted to invest in it in 2002 and provide a 21st century network for France. The resulting network sees fibre to the home in most major cities and fibre to the kerb elsewhere, putting France comfortably within the top ten countries for internet connectivity in the world, averaging 20 Mbps even in the country-side.
Monday, June 15, 2009 03:22PM
(Edited on Monday, June 15, 2009 03:28PM)
#2 Soldierman:
Yeah there would definitely be a lot of false positives from a system like that. Determining what is illegal traffic and what is not seems impossible, especially if everyone switched to fully encrypted peer to peer.
Monday, June 15, 2009 03:09PM
#1 Jeff8500:
Ugh, that would be absolutely horrible if that law was put in place. No internet access if you pirate after getting two warnings? Chances are they would get some false positives and ban you.
Monday, June 15, 2009 02:23PM