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Some more Hadopi stats
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 5 October 2011
Another little update on how three-strikes is going over there in France. As previously reported, the trios-strikes system for fighting illegal file-sharing, or the Hadopi system as some call it, started sending out warning letters to suspected file-sharers last October, based on complaints submitted by rights owners. According to Torrentfreak, the Hadopi agency has now released stats regarding how many letters have been sent out during the system’s first year in operation.
The tech site says that as of last month 650,000 first warning letters had gone out, with 44,000 second warning letters also sent. The last time we had Hadopi stats in July it was about 470,000 and 20,500 respectively. Crucially 60 web users are now on strike three, ie they have failed to respond to previous letters and file-sharing continues on the IP addresses linked to them.
Quite what will now happen to those 60 people remains to be seen. The French law that enables three-strikes is more clear on third strike penalties than the UK’s Digital Economy Act, which talks somewhat vaguely about possible “technical measures”. Though quite what penalties will be actually dished out in France remains to be seen, Torrentfreak reckons 1500 euro fines and a one month suspension of the user’s internet account, which is less than originally expected. Of course any sanctions will have to be approved by a judge, and it’s not clear if that bit of the process has been scheduled yet.
