Re: French law Hadopi

Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:34:47 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 00:22, [Anon] Anon User > wrote:
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> In <21718dc00901191537o2b4f286k990f75fc1caa91ea-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> 3BUIb3S50i 
3BUIb3S50i <[email protected]> wrote:
> >The blocking is arbitrary, upon request of the majors. Majors give IP
> >addresses to a high authority, and high authority blocks the Internet
> >connection, without legal proceedings. People can not defend
> >themselves. It is even impossible to denounce a neighbor who uses our
> >wireless connection: the French state provides software to protect
> >connections, and it consider that the owner of the connection is
> >protected and responsibly. The European Parliament is against French
> >law, but no European law has been passed yet. The French minister of
> >culture want several hundred million of sanctions per year without
> >legal proceedings.
> >
> 
> In that case, anyone using anything that requires high bandwidth could be 
accused
> of sharing illegal files without even evidence.
> 
> Freenet very much needs to be able to cloak it's traffic within "safe"
> protocols and ports to protect it's users from terrorist governments
> like the French people must suffer.

Unfortunately evil governments can identify peer to peer traffic even if it is 
HTTP, simply by the fact that it is peer to peer - it originates and ends on 
a domestic IP address.

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