[BBCNews] French downloaders face government grilling

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The body responsible for administering France’s “three strikes” anti-piracy law has summoned a group of web users to explain their file sharing habits.

But Jeremie Zimmermann from French citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net […] thinks that it is unlikely that anyone will ever be charged.

For Hadopi it’s now about this strategy of intimidation – they’re sending out warnings to make people believe that file-sharing is bad, but that’s as much as they can do

Hadopi is hoping that people will come and confess, that they will say that they have indeed downloaded copyrighted material,” he told BBC News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14294517