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VPN will become the norm. Internet access will be 30€ for the ISP + 5 € for the VPN. Not that much of a big deal for the citizen, more worrying for Paris as a tech scene.

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This might work temporarily, but I argue that it is still very important to protest against this type of development, because in the long run the law will win. I for one do not want to see international communication criminalized. I still remember how out of touch my country was back in the 90s before sattelite TV and the internet. Problem is that its very profitable to create submarkets, so the pressure from the industry to implement restrictions will always be on. To break the pattern, we must fight back and try to make international communication a human right.

Interesting package deal, as the French also have a pretty stringent anti piracy law.

Other side effect, assuming that the VPN is fully encrypted and the server is in a, shall we say more liberal country, is that it will become more easy to pirate things for the average user.

There anti-piracy is more bark than anything. They basically wrote a law with little understanding of its implementation and are trying to push the cost of doing it onto the ISPs who scoffed at the idea (well Free, AFAIK).

Basically they want you to download and install some software on your PC to monitor you for piracy, to prove you're innocent. If you don't install it? You have to prove your innocent without the big brother software. Also, its Windows only. Mac, Unix, Linux are on their own.

Could this lead to a massive boost in the use of tools like Tor?

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