this smells like Sarko (french president) has a good hand in it -
read up on
HADOPI
The law itself isn't the problem - the way it is executed is.
Quote:
On claim or denunciation of copyright holders or their representatives, the HADOPI starts the first step of a so called optional '3-strike' procedure:
* An email is sent to the connection owner, and defined by the IP address involved in the claim.
The email specifies the time of the claim but neither the object of it and the claimant.
The ISP is then supposed to survey the said internet connection. As well, the connection owner is invited to install a filter on his or her own connection.
Whether a repeated offense is suspected by the copyright holders, their representatives, the ISP or the HADOPI, in the 6 months following the first step, the second step of the procedure is started.
* A certified letter is sent to the connection owner with similar information sent in the first mail.
On failure to comply or accusation of repeated offenses by the copyright holders, their representatives, the ISP or the HADOPI, in the year following the reception of the certified letter, the third step of the procedure is started.
* The ISP is required to suspend the internet service for the internet connection, object of the claim, for 2 months to 1 year.
The connection owner is blacklisted and third party ISPs are prevented from providing him or her an internet connection. This service suspension doesn't interrupt billing. Eventual charges involved by the service termination are at the connection owner's expense.
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Absolutely no means of recourse. Guilty, even if you aren't, and with risk of being cut off from the internet if the same error happens twice again (bigger risk of false positive since the ISP is now monitoring you.