Piracy: More effective than the Hadopi PayPal?

By refusing to work with some hosting platforms, PayPal takes the purses, which welcomed the rights with.

Is PayPal prevail as the best ally of the Majors in their fight against piracy? It is possible, according to the article published by TorrentFreak that returns to the role of the online payment platform that has already stopped working with a dozen hosts files (providing some direct download and/or systems of bonuses to users putting online the most popular files).

Following the closure of MegaUpload, PayPal has indeed changed the manner in which he worked with these hosting platforms and, on the basis of the unlawful activity of some of them and their involvement in acts of piracy, changed its rules to impose much more stringent regulations to these companies. PayPal would for example have visibility on the nature of each file put online by users, and despite existing laws in terms of confidentiality.

And according to TorrentFreak, even hosting platforms that accept all PayPal conditions can be refused by the payment system. Which completely paralyzes the activity of some of these services, since PayPal is often the main tool of transaction. MediaFire, Putlocker or DepositFiles cannot a priori rely on PayPal to monetize their activity. Necessarily, if the situation is confirmed, it may develop a serious brake in the development of such hosting platforms.

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Hadopi: the municipal police downloads also!

The position of Mèze municipal police officers are not impeccable side Peer-to-Peer...

After the Elysee and the use of its IP addresses to download illegal files on P2P networks, it is the turn of the municipal police receive a mail of the Hadopi. Indeed, according to the daily Midi Libre, the Office of the municipal police of Mèze, in the Hérault, received a warning of the high authority. A computer in the Office was used to download pirate a movie and a song. At the last municipal Council, the Mayor of the town acknowledged having received this mail without say more but meaning that an internal investigation had been opened to determine whether one agents was responsible for illegal downloading.

As is the usual graduated response procedure, one of the IP of this police station was being flashed by the radars of Trident Media Guard, the Hadopi sent first warning mail. The two files in question are Cars 2 of Disney animation film and the song of the Black Eyed Peas, Can Just Can't Get Enough. While waiting to learn more about this case, remember that 159 pirates repeat records are currently in training before being transmitted to a judge, all recognized guilty based on an IP address that the Elysee Palace just recognize as being not entirely reliable.

In addition, via the YouHaveDownloaded site, the computers of the RIAA (Organization of the successors of the music in the United States, which severely militates against piracy) were also recognized guilty of having pirated music files, as TorrentFreak noted. And Yes, even those who are supposed to show the example and that militate against piracy illegally download films and music... Between paradox and hypocrisy!

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