[LINK] France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers

[Tom Koltai]

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
> Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2011 1:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: [LINK] France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers
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> 
> On 2011/Jul/16, at 1:00 PM, Tom Koltai wrote:
> 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au
> >> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
> >> Sent: Friday, 15 July 2011 9:23 PM
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> >> Subject: [LINK] France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers
> >> 
> >> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/french-agency-
> >> were-swamped-with-three-strikes-complaints.ars
> >> 
> >> http://torrentfreak.com/france-tracks-down-18-million-file-sha
> >> rers-110714/
> >> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> In one of those links it says that there were 18 Million 
> "incidents" but that wasn't 18 million accounts.  Many 
> accounts had multiple "incidents".
> 
Sorry Kim, I saw the quote above:  

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

Didn't bother to read the links. Should have, obviously.


> > 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.
> >