If torrenting or some other form of piracy happens on a network, ISPs send letters to that IP's customer, giving them a warning. Perhaps these café owners were repeatedly warned to enact stricter measures against piracy (i.e. logs), and, failing that, they were arrested for failing to comply with other regulations that are actually enforceable. I can't imagine a café owner could ever be charged with piracy for maintaining an open network.
For what it's worth, I looked around Le Monde and some other news sites to find more information, but there isn't much info to expand on the fact that these people were arrested.
There are cheap off-the-shelf solutions marketed specifically for bars to setup public wifis.
> If torrenting or some other form of piracy happens on a network, ISPs send letters to that IP's customer, giving them a warning. Perhaps these café owners were repeatedly warned to enact stricter measures against piracy (i.e. logs)
The thing that happened here is not related to HADOPI, the worst that can happen to you with hadopi is losing your internet service or having to pay a fine.
The likely thing that happened is that some patron did something illegal enough to warrant a court order asking the ISP to provide logs, the logs led to the bar which couldn't provide their own logs. ISP rates for court orders are expensive, so the police is unlikely to enjoy this dead end.
The "garde a vue" was probably unnecessary, but this kind of overreach is common in France.
What do you mean by this?
Free wifi is for the non-EU tourists.
Now I wonder if it's this law that made it not worth the effort for them.
Free, please conquer the rest of Europe too!
This sounds more like market forces, competition.
I'm much obliged.
The law states that businesses must keep some log in case an investigation about patrons' net usage requires it. It's not checked every day, but when an investigation happens and you got nothing to show, you get prosecuted.
Pretty similar to accounting, the minute details of your accounting won't get checked every year, but you must keep them available for the tax service.