Summary:
French sceners might be facing a new threat: A proposal for a new system which will cut off the connection of all who are deemed to illegally download music or films via internet.
The new French president Nichoas Sarkozy is backing the "the three strikes" policy against online piracy. Under this plan users will be warned twice by the ISPs and then ISPs would terminate service.
For the French readers please brace yourselves for a rise in ISP costs because they have signed on to the proposal. Money will be needed to enforce copyright on their networks via expensive software which monitor traffic on their networks and look for copyrighted content. Users detected or found to be sharing copyrighted matrerial will receive warnings. And if the behavior continues, then your internet access will be cut off.
This is being quoted by IFPI as "the single most important initiative to help win the war on online piracy." So now French internet users have to fear their goverment + the entertainment industry, and their ISPs prying into their internet connections and sniffing their bandwidth and content. However there has been no mention on how they would handle encrypted connections.
