French study hints at Hadopi backlash
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A study published by the University of Rennes makes the controversial claim that online piracy has actually risen by 3% since the new three-strikes law came into force there.
Or to be specific: the piracy rate of people who were illegally downloading before the new law is 3% higher now. We’re a bit puzzled about the details as reported by TorrentFreak though – it says pirates have shifted their activity to ’streaming services’ as well as online storage services like Rapidshare.
Pirate streaming services? Maybe they mean unlicensed sites, because if pirates were switching to licensed streaming services, that would surely be a positive thing? Usage of traditional P2P services did drop by 17.1% between September and December last year though.
Tags: hadopi
March 10th, 2010 at 11:45 am
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