Instead, Copé and his UMP associates now recognize that streaming is quickly overtaking P2P use and that laws focused on illicit P2P traffic are misguided. (This was backed up by a recent French study showing that piracy rates had increased in the wake of the law's passage , and many people were simply switching away from P2P and toward streaming.) Soon, hard drives won't be needed to store information; a network connection will suffice.
French legislators have second thoughts on three strikes law
The increase in non-Hadopi infringement has been larger than the declines in P2P use, suggesting a more general migration to streaming and download sites. This is no doubt because it's easier to find a rogue video site out of China that features one-click streaming of movies and TV shows to the browser than it is to install a P2P client, learn to use it, and then wait for content to arrive. (Some) pirates are buyers In other words, Hadopi is the first step in a game of Whack-a-Mole; even as it beats down P2P use, most users transition to similarly illicit services that the "graduated response" regime doesn't touch. The one bit of good news here for rightsholders is that such services are more centralized than P2P networks, and pressure can be more easily brought to bear on a company like Rapidshare than on a distributed network of users.
Piracy up in France after tough three-strikes law passed
Record industry: ignore that French piracy study!
But the suggestion that it was "only" based on a sample of 2,000 people suggests doubt where none should exist. A 2,000-person sample could actually be used quite accurately to measure the entire US population on an issue; when limited to Brittany, 2,000 people is a large sample.
