Re: French 3-Strikes Law

[Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard@xxxxxxx>]

hgiuh ghj wrote:
>  > The lack of anonymity will then deter users from committing crimes, 
> and make it possible
>  > to punish the guilty.
>
> I agree that if something goes wrong, you need to know who is 
> responsible because the society needs to know. The problem is this 
> system could turn into a kind of "management by terror/pressure", a kind 
> of fake freedom: You can do whatever you can, but we will know in a 
> second if you do something bad.

Just for the record. You are not agreeing with _me_. I was paraphrasing their flawed argument.

Basically they want to make us collect potential evidence for crimes that have not happened 
yet.


> Though, I don't think anonymity will decide someone to commit a crime or 
> not, it's just easier. It's not because you can you have to do it. The 
> point is if it happens, we (the society) need to find someone to sustain 
> its structure.
>
>  > > The law isn't about country-based content filtering. To put it in a 
> nutshell you can
>  > > still do what you want with your internet access and the 
> connections aren't restricted,
>  > > but if they prove you share/download copyrighted content (mostly 
> via P2P, they didn't care
>  > > about streaming), you could be disconnected after 2 warnings.
>  >
>  > Except they do not have to actually prove it.
>
> This is the darkest point, they just have to say you did something wrong 
> without tell you why and the guiltiness criteria aren't defined. Plus, 
> how does a newbie could be find guilty to use WEP instead of WPA ?
>
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