French president Sarkozy called the three-strikes law against p2p piracy is a huge success. He wants to move on infringing streamingsites to focus on, and he alluded to an adjustment of the Hadopi-law for alternative piraterijmethodes.
“Thanks to the Hadopi law is the p2p piracy with 35 per cent”, said the French president Sarkozy on Friday during a meeting in Avignon on culture in the digital age. “The battle is therefore not lost”, he says. The decrease is, however, viewed skeptically, finds the site of Espresso, because a part of the piracy becomes invisible through the use of vpn and proxy servers, while another part is moved has to download sites like MegaUpload and to streamingsites.
On this last category will Sarkozy now focus: “We must go further because there are streamingsites.” He stated that the sharing of music is not always negative, “but the streamingsites is the ideology of sharing the ideology of the money.” Probably he means the fact that streamingsites earn money with ads and offering subscriptions, while they have nothing or too little to pay to collecting societies. Sarkozy announced the Hadopi-law as the emergence of alternative infringing piraterijmethodes so requires.
Also confirmed the president the coming of a Conseil National de la Musique, that the production of music should stimulate and artists, this financial needs to support. The introduction is controversial because he wants internet service providers a fee to pay which the institute paid is going to be. The isps are vehemently against.