Thread: Italy announces "3-strike" program for P2P users

Italy announces "3-strike" program for P2P users



Italy's Minister of Culture Sandro Bondi said that Italy will follow the "French model" for P2P piracy. After finishing talks with music industry officials, movie industry officials, and ISPs, Italy will be following in France's footsteps by implementing a "3 strikes" regime. Previous talks in Venice between Italy and MPAA’s President Robert Pisano stating: “Maybe the first couple of times they get a warning e-mail, then perhaps the speed on their account is reduced, and if they keep doing it then maybe their account is closed.” It seems that there will be a fair bit of collaboration between Italy and France regarding this issue, and Sandro Bondi stated that a fight against piracy is a priority for Italy's government.

It seems as though the "graduated response" method is becoming very popular (save New Zealand's zero tolerance approach, we'll see how long that lasts) amongst the world's leaders in internet usage. Perhaps we'll start seeing a proliferation of seedbox use?

To hell with this, those guys are really starting to piss me off. I read about this elsewhere also heard something on the news ( as I live in Italy, no secret... )
Sons of bitches, they have HUGE other issues and what do they do?: ...they send warning emails to tax payers... hand in hand with the ISPs, the same ISP that practically begged me on the phone to change my previous account and make a new one with them...

Like Sandro Bondi's son BUYS cd's... yeah right...

Fu*K them and the rest of the block buster ******s out there

Good thing Germany doesn't do that. I'm on number two already.

there will be chaos if US use that program

France made the same thing.
So : a eMule user who downloaded 1 To without protection is arrested sometimes...
But not so more.

this kind of politic can only harm a country, imo. :(

My nephew here in the USA just recieved an email from some legal firm representing the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and the movie industry through his ISP threatening him with a lawsuit if he downloads any more MP3's or Movies. The notice included a list of items he'd downloaded with the file sizes and dates.

The RIAA has been very active and suing people downloading MP3's over here for a while now. Just read a couple weeks ago about a $200k fine brought against a girl who downloaded 5 tunes when she was 13 for her own use, but she left her shared file open and it was uploaded by like over 2,000 people... This particular case got thrown out of court Teenager foils RIAA P2P lawsuit - vnunet.com

...but what a royal pain in the ass, having to defend yourself against something like that... and the RIAA is winning the majority of these cases over here, with ridiculous awards people are being made to pay in most of the cases...

kinda serious.............i dont understand y ppl dont use PeerGuardian.............

Bad news for italians...