Comments on: Lawmakers Clueless About BitTorrent and P2P http://torrentfreak.com/lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: France to Block The Pirate Bay, Disconnect File-Sharers | CyberLaw Blog /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-546301 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:28:10 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-546301 [...] the people who get to decide on these issues have no clue about file-sharing at all. Many of them don’t know what BitTorrent is, or how it works. Yet, they decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of Internet [...]

]]> By: R-one /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-545992 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:34:19 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-545992 You’ve to know that in France, for a few years, people pay taxes to the SACEM (or something like that) when they buy hard disc, usb-key, blank cd and dvd… The SACEM is an ornagnism which is charged to collect money for the artists like the ASCAP.
In a certain way, they allow people to save music, movies,… on taxed products and then accused them for downloading files. Strange, not?

]]> By: EU Rejects ‘3 Strikes’ for File-Sharers | Bootleg Corner /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-545348 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:39:02 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-545348 [...] French tried to protect their upcoming 3 Strikes law, but failed. An amendment proposed to read, “Access to the Internet should not [...]

]]> By: Français /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-544734 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:38:07 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-544734 Vive la France!

]]> By: overflowlegal.com /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-544369 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:49:49 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-544369 Lawmakers Clueless About BitTorrent and P2P | TorrentFreak…

The entertainment industry managed to convince the French government to draft a law that will make it possible to disconnect people from the Internet, if they receive more than two copyright infringement warnings. Sadly, most of the politicians who pla…

]]> By: Citizen /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-544147 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:26:51 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-544147 I call epic fail.

There should be some intelligence check to make sure these people actually KNOW about the subject they’re passing a law on before they can do so.

Then the world would make just a little more sense

]]> By: News Torrents » EU Rejects ‘3 Strikes’ for File-Sharers /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-544013 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:24:47 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-544013 [...] French tried to protect their upcoming 3 Strikes law, but failed. An amendment proposed to read, “Access to the Internet should not be [...]

]]> By: Jesse /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-543891 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:09:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-543891 @2 nice one covered my screen in beer when i read that one.

at least the ministers at the start admitted they knew nothing

]]> By: EU Rejects ‘3 Strikes’ for File-Sharers | IDTorrent Blog /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-543851 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:20:16 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-543851 [...] French tried to protect their upcoming 3 Strikes law, but failed. An amendment proposed to read, “Access to the Internet should not [...]

]]> By: [TF] EU Rejects ?3 Strikes? for File-Sharers - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net /lawmakers-clueless-about-bittorrent-and-p2p-090321/#comment-543849 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:19:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=11170#comment-543849 [...] all european citizens is synonymous with guaranteeing education. The french tried to protect their upcoming 3 strikes law, but failed. An amendment proposed to read, ?access to the internet should not be the [...]

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