This is one of the findings that emerge in the hollow of the voluminous report released on Sunday 23 January, the High Authority for the dissemination of works and the protection of rights on the Internet (Hadopi) on patterns of content consumption Cultural Online: punish illegal downloading will only go through the monitoring of peer-to-Peer (P2P).According to the poll conducted for the Hadopi before the introduction of "flexible response", in France there are almost as many Internet users illegally downloading via Rapidshare or Megaupload (37% of respondents claiming to download illegally) than to P2P users (42% of the sample). Other figures seem to confirm this trend.
According to research firm ComScore, 7.4 million French Internet users visited the site Megaupload, in November, there were only 350,000 visitors in August 2008. Globally, the Ad Planner tool, Google shows that the direct download site has counted 72 million unique visitors and nearly 600 million page views in December.
When to Megavideo, streaming site (streaming), also owned Megaupload, they meet at least 50 million visitors (370 million page views). And according to data collected by MarkMonitor, a company that specializes in copyright, the three major download sites that are streaming or Rapidshare, Megaupload Megavideo and accounted for 21 billion hits for the year 2010.
EVOLUTION OF PRACTICES Despite their growing volume of visits, Internet Piracy is not technically able to monitor these services. Based abroad, they do not function in a decentralized fashion, such as P2P, which allow copyright owners to connect to see what IP addresses that download files.
Only Megaupload or Rapidshare, for example, know who downloads any file and when; to gain access to such information, rights holders should initiate legal proceedings long and complex, hardly compatible with their desire to identify users who download massive illegal . Until now, Internet Piracy had a tendency to downplay the magnitude of the phenomenon.
"For beneficiaries, the migration of piracy to the 'direct download' is not so massive that what it says. TMG [the company that makes the tracking of users on behalf of beneficiaries] n ' no problem finding 70,000 IP per day, "noted Mireille Quaretta Imbert, president of the Commission for Protection of Human Hadopi at a press conference Jan.
12. The study by the High Authority itself, however, shows that the sightings made by TMG are only the tip of the iceberg. Previous studies, such as that conducted by the laboratory rsouin M @, or observations of Internet access providers, tend to give credence to the idea that the French are turning to direct download services ...
Hadopi to escape. LEGAL SERVICES, THE USES ILLEGAL lack of means to control and sanction Hadopi therefore attempts to break new pedagogy. The letter, sent at the second stage of the "graduated response" contains an allusion to the streaming services like Megavideo. This letter states that "voluntary behavior consultation, made available or reproduction of works protected by copyright, commonly called 'piracy', constitute counterfeiting offenses punished by the courts." However, if the availability and reproduction are many counterfeiting offenses, mere consultation is not sanctioned by law.
Questioned on this point by Numerama, Mireille Quaretta Imbert explained that "the recommendations were written primarily in order to be understandable by those who receive. The [Commission for the Protection of Rights] has voluntarily dismissed anything that might appear as a characterization of the facts and privileged (...) everyday language easily accessible.
"Pedagogy Will it be enough? Eric Walter, General Secretary of Internet Piracy, said that the study "is by no means an environmental impact: it was launched before the introduction of the graduated response." The High Authority considers that prior to review its action, it will take. At least "18 months of full operation," Mireille Imbert-Quaretta or 2013.
Questioned Friday on France Inter, Frederic Mitterrand himself estimated that it would make a first assessment in six months. It seems that on at least one point, an educational effort is needed. The study shows that for the Internet, the distinction between legal and illegal is not always evident: 30% of respondents say they do not know if paid services they use are legal or illegal.
The distinction is indeed not simple: a subscriber paying Megaupload uses a service which in itself is legal (like peer-to-Peer) but use it to download files under copyright is against the law.
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