![]() ![]() Some have resisted attempts by the RIAA to shut them down others have not. Since then dozens of file sharing clients have become popular. Napster was one of the first of these systems, and one of the first to be sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for contributory copyright infringement. Peer-to-peer file sharing systems gave a significant boost to the craze they allow users to download music from other users, eliminating the need for centralized servers with a store of illegal song files. Music file sharing has taken many forms in the last decade, from postings on web sites to secret AOL chat rooms to public FTP servers. ![]() Since the invention of audio compression in the early 1990’s, music file sharing has been a part of Internet culture. (from Buechner, go here for more information.) Needless to say, the top four ISPs, namely SFR, Orange, Bouygues Telecom and Free are expected to follow up with this block."Each of the five major record labels has invested in one online service or another, hoping to reclaim control over the digital distribution of their wares and salvage some of the action they've lost to illegal song swapping." ![]() Phew! Aren’t you thankful that this is not the age of old school colonialism? If that were the case, plenty of other countries in Africa, as well as several countries in the Indo-China region too, would have had to face such a blockade.ĭo take note that T411 happens to be one of the major torrent sites in France, where there are close to 5.6 million members who do exchange approximately 500,000 files. Ī rough translation of a statement from the SCPP claims that a Parisian court has asked all ISPs to implement relevant and necessary measures so that there is no way that one will be able to access the T411 music file sharing site, as long as one remains in France. Having said that, the French authorities known as the SCPP (“Civil Society of Producers of Phonograms”) has asked for certain sites to be blocked with regularity, and with one of the biggest “catches” being The Pirate Bay not too long ago, the crosshairs have now been trained on T411. After all, you might have one particular site that carries a mix of legit as well as pirated content get blocked due to a court order, only to have another one spring up elsewhere with a different URL overnight, and the vicious cycle repeats itself again. In the war against piracy, it is always a game of cat and mouse, especially when you take into consideration the rather borderless nature of how the Internet works. ![]()
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