As some of you may know, a new law (“Hadopi”) has been voted in France that allows private companies to monitor illegal downloads of their copyrighted content, log the IP addresses, ask the Internet access providers for actual names, and then start doing stuff like sending email and disabling your Internet connection for up to a year (while you still continue to pay for it).
As an effort to try and show how absurd this law is in today’s world I put up a fake page (in French) selling the “Hadopi router” that automatically cracks passwords of the nearby Wifi networks and connects to them to download torrents.
It’s a dumb joke, but I think it does point out a little bit of the absurdity of the law 
Comments and suggestions welcome!
Well nice, but what really is needed is a good fast resilient FOSS P2P network that operates mostly anonymous.
An open source serverless implementation of wua.la might be a good start.
Reminder for European electors : this law is directly opposed to the ‘Bono’ amendment, voted several times by the European parliament, with the notable exception of a strong competitor for the title of the dumbest ever right wing : the UMP.
On June, 7th, you’ll be asked to vote for your European deputees. For the people here in France who try to maintain an ounce of common sense in what’s going on in our country, do vote.
I really don’t see how they’re going to monitor http/newsgroup downloads. And they don’t realize that everything is going to be encrypted after a while, and they will sue people based on some random filenames downloaded on p2p networks. These guys live in the past, and they don’t know it.
I don’ steal in shops, I don’t see why I should steal on the Internet. Usually laws make thieves not happy, not honest people. And if one day I have a problem because I download GB of linux distro thru torrent, then I will sue people who cut my connection for downloading LEGAL contents.
I am not pro or con Hadopi, I just don’t give a shit about it.