France's online piracy programme has passed the 5 million milestone in warnings sent to alleged infringers.

That's according to latest figures published by the anti-piracy agency Hadopi, which has also shown a 267% increase year-on-year in referrals to the public prosecutor. In the first half of 2015, 169 people were referred, up from 46 in the same period last year. 

Torrent Freak notes that France became one of the first users of the graduated response system back in 2010; the ...