[LINK] France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers

[Tom Koltai]

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> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/french-agency-
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> http://torrentfreak.com/france-tracks-down-18-million-file-sha
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> > Starting October last year French Internet users have been 
> receiving 
> > letters as part of the three-strikes system built-in to the 
> > controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation. This week the agency 
> > responsible for the warnings gave out details on the scope of the 
> > operation. In the last 9 months 18 Million file-sharers 
> were tracked, 
> > but due to limited capacity 'only' 470,000 warnings were 
> sent out to 
> > first-time offenders.

More absolute statistical bending. We are asked to believe that of a
countries 62 million population 18 million are file sharers. 

According to the OECD, 73% of France uses the Internet [45,260,000].
That means that 39% use file sharing.

I think it a lot more likely that 0.010384445% (or 470,000 [1% of the
pop.]) of French persons use File sharing software.

This is in line with the graphic that I published a few months ago...
http://kovtr/com/data/ED2K_RIP_2007_2010.png (from statistics collected
in France by Peerates.)

Unfortunately, French legislators have been gypped into believing that
File sharing is a problem via the scandalously prepared Tera Report.
Therefore the lie needs to continue to be perpetuated.

>In the last 9 months 18 Million file-sharers 
> were tracked

That obviously means that in the last nine months only 18 million IP
numbers were noted as being involved with File Sharing activity.

The article doesn't explain how the investigators knew that that each of
the IP numbers was a different file sharer.
Nor did they explain how the same file sharer over nine months probably
reconnected their TCP sessions using several different IP numbers.

This theorem can be tested by arguing that possibly each file sharer
identified (470,000) downloaded one file every 7 days over nine months.
Why that would result in .... 18,000,000 occurrences. Gee, what a
coincidence.

470000 x 38.3 weeks = 18,000,000 

Another example of the copyright cops inability to tell a good yarn.
Obviously a total lack of Irish (blarney stone beneficiaries) working
for the copyright industry.

References:

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/24/5/48255770.pdf