It must suck to live in France right now. French Minister of Culture Christine Albanel wants to rid the world of filesharing and ban from the Internet anyone suspected of filesharing copyrighted material. Seeing the way things have been going in France with the official stance on filesharing, we wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes a reality in the near future.
According to reports, this hardline approach is the result of the Olivennes report, which proposes cutting people off from the Internet for filesharing copyrighted files — well, after two warnings anyway.
Once people get banned, they will be put on a blacklist and unable to sign up with another ISP. Is this really the state of the world today? Regardless of what you think about filesharing, this is surely taking it all a step too far. It will make outlaws out of ordinary people. Better burn all those copied cassettes you have in your attic.