HADOPI Blamed for ISP Rate Hikes in France
Found on Zeropaid on Monday, 03 January 2011
The goal of The High Authority for the Protection of works on the Internet (HADOPI) is to stop piracy, but French internet users are learning that the only thing HADOPI has effectively stopped is low rates for an internet connection.
What's ridiculous is the fact that, now, those who aren't pirating material are also being punished for these laws as well. Meanwhile, pirates are migrating to more secure sources, so the only people HADOPI is really punishing are non-pirates and pirates who don't know what they are doing.
You don't even need Captain Obvious for that. Hadopi costs up to $64 million each year, so it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who will pay for it. Of course it will not stop filesharing at all: I guess many now will decide not to buy from the entertainment industry anymore to compensate for the rising ISP costs they have caused by forcing a completely useless law into reality.