Internet. 10 million French illegally download – Ouest-France

While the convictions and prosecutions continue to rain against individuals, the French continue to engage in the practice. Thus, in May, no less than 10 million French people went on one of the fifteen main pirate sites reported Figaro . Given this figure, which remains stable for two years, rights holders recognize, not without regret, that there is “an irreducible core French, who always find ways to hack their works.”

4 million users opting for peer-to-peer

For a long time in France, illegal downloading peer-to-peer (read inset) was commonplace. Following the intervention of the legislature, through the High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet (Hadopi) with the sending of the first “warning letters” , things have changed.

In January 2012, a report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) indicated that the number of users peer-to-peer had dropped 26% in less than two years. Despite this, 4 million French continue to use peer-to-peer sites like BitTorrent the newspaper, which emphasizes that the rest of Internet users has since turned to the download sites and streaming, judged more discreet.

The closing of platforms can not stem the phenomenon

These platforms dedicated for download Download Zone Fig. Appeared in summer 2011, the site (acclaimed by 3.5 million French in May, Ed) offers films, series, video games or music but, unlike the peer-to-peer , does not host the files, content instead to send surfers to storage services such Uptobox, 1file and Rapidgator. Note that the domain name of the site refers to an address in Nassau, Bahamas.

A veritable scourge, illegal downloading still has a bright future ahead of him. Indeed, as soon as a site is closed, several other reopen to take on and so forth. For their part, the beneficiaries contrattaquent taking administrators to target sites. Recently, the creator of the illegal download site, “Wawa mania” Dimitri Mader was sentenced to a fine of over 15 million euros in damages.

The Peer-to-peer (P2P), which means “equals” is based on a sharing system between different computers, all of which can send and receive data. Thanks to this, millions of users affiliated with a network can share files stored on the hard drive of their computer.