[governance] BBC E-mail: French net piracy bill signed off

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Hi all

I did read the story and found the legislation somewhat welcome as a
deterrent against piracy. A conundrum still exist after reading this phrase
from the stoy:
"But some consumer groups have warned that the wrong people might be
punished, should hackers hijack their computers' identity, and that the
scheme amounted to state surveillance".

I have had my email hijacked once as some of you have see some commercial
message appearing along side my postings sometime ago.

Question: won't this legislation be pretext for a rise in th hacking
business?

Cheers

On 5/14/09, Kwasi <kboakye1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> Kwasi saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
> should see it.
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> ** French net piracy bill signed off **
> France passes a law to combat copyright piracy by disconnecting people who
> illegally download films and music.
> < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8046564.stm >
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