France has introduced legislation that will ban repeat internet pirates from the Internet. According to a Reuters report, – service providers will issue warning messages to customers downloading files illegally. If users ignore those messages, their accounts could be suspended or closed altogether.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy explained:

We run the risk of witnessing a genuine destruction of culture. The Internet must not become a high-tech Far West, a lawless zone where outlaws can pillage works with abandon or, worse, trade in them in total impunity. And on whose backs? On artists’ backs.

Source France has introduced legislation that will ban repeat internet pirates from the Internet. According to a Reuters report, – service providers will issue warning messages to customers downloading files illegally. If users ignore those messages, their accounts could be suspended or closed altogether.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy explained:

We run the risk of witnessing a genuine destruction of culture. The Internet must not become a high-tech Far West, a lawless zone where outlaws can pillage works with abandon or, worse, trade in them in total impunity. And on whose backs? On artists’ backs.

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