The French government’s “three strikes” approach to online copyright infringement relies on a private company that scans file sharing networks and gathers the IP addresses of alleged Gallic content pirates. But that company, TMG, suffered an embarrassing security breach last week, and the French government has “temporarily suspended” its acquisition of new TMG data while an investigation is underway.
The embarrassing episode began last week when a French writer found a highly insecure TMG server on the internet and managed to extract internal TMG executables and scripts, along with a cache of IP addresses. According to the initial report, the security on the server was so bad that “one wonders if TMG recently became a Sony subsidiary” — or if the server was a honeypot.
The problems appear to be real. Eric Walter, the head of France’s HADOPI antipiracy agency that administers the “three strikes” regime, took to Twitter to tell the world that “par mesure de précaution l’ #hadopi a décidé de suspendre provisoirement son interconnexion avec #TMG” [as a precautionary measure, #hadopi decided to temporarily suspend its interconnection with #TMG]. More...
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