What are P2P networks?
Peer-to-peer file sharing is when people on the internet make files available to be downloaded over the internet. Examples of software programs that let you do this are Napster, Kazaa, Gnutella (like Limewire), and Bittorrent (like Azureus and uTorrent). Let’s say you recorded a school play on a video camcorder. You make a video file (let’s say .avi) and you put this up on YouTube and you also put it up on a P2P network. This means you can share this with others – but in France this could be grounds for you getting dropped from getting access to the world wide web. How the French punishment system will work If you’re a P2P user in France, you’ll get the three strikes and you’re out policy like we mentioned. The way this works is that when you are caught downloading what they presume to be illegal content, you will get a warning for that specific illegal download. These warnings will be held in their records. For all intents and purposes, after 3 total downloading infringements, you wil
