New legislation about restricting internet access to anyone deemed to have downloaded copyrighted material has been discussed here in previous posts and now the first stage of the legislation has been passed in France.
New legislation passed in France.
It's still not been defined just how evidence that someone has downloaded copyrighted material will be collected, it's been suggested that the copyright holder would have to contact the downloaders ISP but how the hell is the copyright holder going to know who has been illegally downloading their material?
The ISP's don't want the job which involves them being the judge and jury and intercepting their customers internet connection and spying on them with DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) this obviously is not going to make them very popular, the biggest worry is that when a law is passed in any EU country it is often then adopted in other EU countries so it probably won't be long before similar laws are used in most of Europe and probably the world especially in the USA.
ISP's don't want to be judge and jury!