The Hadopi organization, which, in France, the controversial anti-piracy legislation must be in check, the first set of statistics published. In total, 470.878 first warnings sent out, but there are still no court cases conducted.
The French government agency Hadopi should the controversial three strikes policy maintain. One of the tasks is the request of personal information by providers on the basis of ip addresses that they get from auteursrechtwaakhonden and companies in the entertainment industry. It then sends the organization a maximum of two warnings to an alleged illegal downloader to him as the last step to continue. According to the Hadopi law, risking illegal downloaders, a fine of 1500 euros and a temporary closure of the internet.
The Hadopi supervisor after nine months to be the first published figures. This shows that the organization, approximately 18 million p2p users has followed who “partner” Trident Media Guard the data provided. French isps provided personal information of about 900,000 persons, but due to ‘limited capacity’ for Hadopi, there are through e-mail 470.878 first warnings sent while 20.598 French writing have received a second warning.
Persons who for the third time are ‘caught’ on illegal downloading, risk a fine of 1500 euros and the closure of the internet for up to a month. Hadopi has not yet persons prosecuted, while only ten people for the third time on the fingers are tapped. Hadopi would consider to be some of them for the right to drag, reports PC World.
Or the three strikes law is actually the p2p use in France know to reduce, is unclear. A lot of French downloaders would have switched to vpn networks or use proxies, but hard numbers are missing.