Two years after the creation of HADOPI (in french : Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et de la Protection des droits sur Internet), which was set up to fight illegal downloading on the internet, how can we interpret the results and the efficiency of this organisation ?
Between january 2010 and june 2011, 500 000 warnings and 20 000 recommandations to recidivists have been sent. For Marie-Françoise Marais, the president of HADOPI, HADOPI "works" and is "a reality", it also promotes the development of legal downloading.
But, according to some studies, more then one billion files are illegally downloaded each year in France. This impressive statistic shows that the number of warnings is very weak. Moreover, the statistics doesn't show how many internet access are really cut off because of illegal downloading. We can wonder about the efficiency of such an organisation because it seems really hard to fight against digital technology and an uncontrolable media like internet.
Maybe it's time to find other solutions, like to lay down a tax on internet subscriptions...
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