Andre Yoskowitz
7 Sep 2012 20:08
HADOPI, the French anti-piracy agency in charge of sending out warning letters and eventually kicking pirates off the Internet for 'three strikes,' did very little of either during the last two years.
According to new data, rightsholders identified over 3 million IP addresses that should be sent 'first strike' warning letters while HADOPI narrowed that down to 1.1 million. 9 percent of those received a second warning while just 0.34 percent ever got to the "third strike" stage. Laughably, 0.0012 percent were referred to the courts.
Despite being a three strike system, the under 400 citizens who got to that point never lost their Internet. Apparently, if you do not get caught during the 12 months following your third strike, the file is not forwarded to prosecutors.
14 citizens were sent to prosecutors, but that was because they refused to respond to any warnings
Somehow, HADOPI was proud of the results.