Drive out with the pirates: an automatic monitoring system 2007-06-24
Following the Council Decision of State of last May 23, the Net surfers, in a legal way, will be now supervised automatically by a software allowing to determine the number of files which the latter divide on Internet, and in particular on the networks peer to peer. Attention, you are supervised!
Recall of the facts
On October 18, 2005, the CNIL (Data-processing National Commission and of Freedoms) prohibited at the companies of authors and producers SACEM, SCPP, and SPPF the right to set up measurements aiming at fighting against the musical hacking in particular on networks P2P. These measurements were primarily:
The sending of messages to the Net surfers informing them of the illegal character and the consequences of the remote loading of works subjected to the royalties.
The illegal search and report for provision of works on the networks of exchanges type P2P via automated systems of monitoring of the remote loadings.
Surprised, on May 23, 2007, the Council of State cancelled this decision entirely. The following official statement was then appeared:
The SCPP accomodates with much satisfaction this decision. It reminds that the rejection of its request by the CNIL did not allow him, like the SACEM and the SPPF, to take the actions of prevention and repression of the musical piracy which were however carried out in the majority of the states of the European Union.
France is one of the countries today where piracy on Internet is developed and where, consequently, the legal market of the music on line develops most slowly.
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