12 million Euros for one million warning emails. They could have bought the infringed Dvds.

It's pretty refreshing to see cases where a government doesn't stay the course when the facts contradict it. I wonder if it is in less of a thrall of France's IP lobby?

The left wing has always been against the repressive/agressive methods of hadopi, and were instead always favorable to better legal options.

What is refreshing is a government keeping its promises after the elections, especially on matters like this which the general public doesn't really care about while some huge corp are fighting for it (remember that vivendi/universal is french, for example, and our "culture producing" industry is quite huge).

It should be noted that the government changed recently. So it is less of a correction than a change of direction.

"Hadopi, the body charged with hunting down freetards under France’s three-strikes law, has sent a million warning e-mails and 99,000 registered letters."

Did The Register really just say "freetards?"

The Register uses terms like that all the time. It is part of it's charm, but it does appear quite childish to people who don't read it regularly. Especially people who aren't British.

The jargon seems to have gotten denser over time. I left off reading it a few year back, and now some of it is just incomprehensible.

Not a regular reader, then?

I don't know much about this situation beyond what is in this article. Are they measuring success by the number of individuals being prosecuted? Was the goal to reduce piracy or to prosecute citizens? The article makes no mention of a lack of copyright infringement reduction, which is what I would (naively?) assume is a reasonable metric for inefficacy.

It's a very good think. This law was against our vision of what Internet must be.