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| The French government has cracked down hard on illegal file-sharing |
TMG monitors peer-to-peer networks as half of France's efforts to seek out those guilty of copyright infringements.
Eric Walter, head of the French anti-piracy unit, confirmed on Twitter that it had "briefly suspended" links with TMG.
France's therefore-called HADOPI law has caused controversy since it absolutely was introduced in 2009. Suspected illegal file-sharers receive three official warnings, when that they are reported to a judge who will hand out a vary of punishments, together with disconnecting them from the internet.
The UK is because of introduce similar legislation, although at this stage it has no plans to punish offenders with disconnection. However it can need to employ a firm almost like TMG.
When anti-piracy companies monitor peer-to-peer networks for copyright infringements, they find IP addresses - the numerical code linked to a particular internet association.
Armed with this information, copyright holders will request that a judge forces ISPs at hand over the physical addresses related to the IP address. "Any firm that gets involved in this will need to create positive that its security is nailed down," said John Walker, professor at Nottingham Trent University's college of computing.
"This was the right storm waiting to happen. It absolutely was an immediate target for hacktivists. You cannot even decision it a hack, it was a walk-in, a travesty," he said.
A similar attack was perpetrated by hacktivists from the loose-knit Anonymous group against ACS Law, a firm pursuing alleged net pirates within the UK.
In the method of rebuilding his web site, the firm's sole solicitor Andrew Crossley exposed thousands of names and addresses plus lists of pornographic films that people were alleged to have downloaded while not paying for. He was fined just £one,zerozerozero once he claimed bankruptcy, but the UK Info Commissioner said the breach was so severe it warranted a fine of £200,000.
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