Digital

Trois-strikes put on hold after data leak

By | Published on Thursday 19 May 2011

Hadopi

The three-strikes system administered by the Hadopi agency in France was put on hold earlier this week after one of those increasingly fashionable data spills.

As previously reported, the French anti-piracy agency has been sending out thousands of letters a day to suspected file-sharers since last year, threatening said file-sharers with internet disconnection if they do not stop accessing digital content from illegal sources. But according to reports, the letter sending was halted this week when it was revealed the company collecting data on suspected file-sharers for Hadopi had suffered a data breach. It’s not entirely clear what kind of data was lost by Trident Media Guard, but it was enough to persuade Hadopi chiefs to halt the letter sending as it put new data safeguards in place.

It’s not thought the data spill will have any major impact on the French government’s crack down on online piracy, though its an embarrassment the country’s copyright enforcers could do without, especially given privacy concerns are always given by internet service providers as to why they shouldn’t have to deal with regulators seeking to identify the names and addresses of net users linked to a specific IP address.



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