France Ready To Shut Down Hadopi As It's 'Incompatible' With Digital Economy

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jun 5, 2013 9:34 AM EDT
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It's amazing how frequently we still hear from entertainment industry folks or politicians pointing to Hadopi as an example of "success" in a three strikes program. Of course, the reality is that it has been a colossal failure by nearly every measure possible. The industry has had to seriously massage the statistics, but they can't deny the simple fact that it hasn't helped drive sales, which really seems like the key metric. In fact, the latest reports show that music sales -- including digital sales -- have continued to drop. Even more telling: the decline in sales in France has outpaced the decline elsewhere. In other words, nothing about Hadopi worked.

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Targeting other metrics than sales nmset 1 849 Jun 5, 2013 5:36 PM

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