French piracy law would cut off internet access

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By Caroline CLARKSON (text)

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by Anonyme (not verified) - 13/05/2009 - 17:26

What difference will it actually make? Most downloading is of tv shows not films or music. No extra music will be bought because most is rubbish, No more people will go to the cinema, and the tv shows will just fade away. Stupid Sarkozy. As the first poster said, make tv, movies and music available on the internet and make them a reasonable price. Give the poor free internet, and tv and the downloads will stop.

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Missing the point

by John Mahon (not verified) - 11/03/2009 - 08:59

Most people here are missing the whole point of why internet users download music & films. The record, film & distribution companies over price CD's & DVD's effectively making them unnecessarily expensive for many people. If these organisations streamlined themselves, priced their products realistically, joined the 21st Century by making the content of the obsolete media available for legal download, this would go a long way to reducing the problem of illegal downloads, rather than using these proposed Draconian measures.

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Difficult??

by Andrew Other (not verified) - 10/03/2009 - 18:49

>>they say it would be technically difficult to cut internet access without cutting the telephone and television connections.<<

It is the easiest thing in the world (for most ISPs) to cut somebody's internet connection. Futhermore, it would be appropriate to throttle offenders connections so that they still worked, but only downloaded at half / quarter dial-up speed or less. The offenders would then lose all interest in downloading anything, apart from an occasional email.