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Sign the petition for a global licence by L'Alliance Public-Artists (public and artists for a legal solution for exchanges on the Internet). The organization mentioned in the BBC story is L'Association Des Audionautes. All pages are in French. Use Google Language Tools if you need a translation.

This is inaccurate. If you read the press release, it clearly states that this is the first time that downloading and uploading have been considered private copies. This is the major significance of this case. Plus, the portion you linked to was only an extract of the case.

Actually, just adding a little bit of information since this is my association. Here is the website of the audionautes : http://www.audionautes.net/ But most of our english information is on our blog at : http://www.audionautes.net/blog/ and on my personal website : http://soufron.typhon.net/ If someone ca add it in the news. Thanks to all for sharing the information :-)

Actually, just adding a little bit of information since this is my association. Here is the website of the audionautes : http://www.audionautes.net/ But most of our english information is on our blog at : http://www.audionautes.net/blog/ and on my personal website : http://soufron.typhon.net/ If someone ca add it in the news. Thanks to all for sharing the information :-)

Filesharing music increases CD sales, it is an organ of publicity just like radio.

Copying things for personal use is "Fair Dealing".
UK Copright Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_ United_Kingdom
Copyright was designed to encourage art.
But It is being abused to clamp down on music, by illegalising the Mashup and Mix and destroying Sample Based Music with exhorbitant Liscense Fees.

For many examples of why Copyright Cartels destroy Creativity read "Freedom of Expression" for Free http://kembrew.com/books/ - an excellent read that shows how Intellectual Property Laws are harming Progress and the Value it Creates.

Clamping down on the distribution of culture within a society will cause the well to dry up.
Do the Major Labels nuture talent? Do they provide music Eduation? No they steal Britain's Greatest Resource, tie it up with legal, and milk it dry, giving nothing back.

The Major Labels act as a Monopolistic Cartel, fixing CD prices, forcing artists into low paying contracts where they have no control over what they make and what it is used for.

Suing people is just a money grab, it has netted the American RIAA $1,000,000 so far and now the greed is spreading.

Sharing things is morally and ethically good, it enriches society and in this case increases the size of the music market.
Want to Protect your Intellectual Property from Unliscenced Commercial Exploitation and Want it to be Used by Other Artists - Use A Creative Commons Liscense.
http://creativecommons.org/

The Majors are set against it because they do not wish to relinquish control, their bloated business practices wouldn't survive one minute in a free market.

Here is a translation of a recent French case where the judge saw sense and let the Guy off.
http://www.audionautes.net/blog/index.php?2005/03/ 11/23-movies-downloading-judged-legal-in-france

Peer to peer is the intended architecture of the Internet, Client Server is a hangover from when Bandwidth and storage was expensive - if these fools have their way the internet will break.

The European Union Copyright Directive (EU DCMA) has removed many of our "fair dealing" rights by the backdoor of DRM.

The UK Phony Society's recent press release eagerly parroted by the press are all spin how can they possibly sue 8 year old children for downloading things - They Can't They Are Lying and Bullying People into Coughing Up money they may have used to see bands or buy music.

English press release from French Association of Audionautes (L'Association Des Audionautes)

"The Court based its decision on the article L-122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code stating that 'authors can't forbid copies or reproductions that are only intented for the private use of the copyist.'"

English translation of that law

IANAFL (I am not a French lawyer), but this seems to run counter to previous rulings there. In the U.S., the Supreme Court would likely intercede in a situation like this, but the French Cour de Cassation -- the only higher court than the Cours d'Appel -- can, as Jean-Baptiste explained on FreeCulture.org's Discuss list, "only decide on procedural problems or legal interpretation, not on legal qualification. As we say, 'Cassation is judge of law and not judge of facts' and this case is a matter of facts and not a matter of law..."

English press release from French Association of Audionautes (L'Association Des Audionautes)

"The Court based its decision on the article L-122-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code stating that 'authors can't forbid copies or reproductions that are only intented for the private use of the copyist.'"

English translation of that law

IANAFL (I am not a French lawyer), but this seems to run counter to previous rulings there. In the U.S., the Supreme Court would likely intercede in a situation like this, but the French Cour de Cassation -- the only higher court than the Cours d'Appel -- can, as Jean-Baptiste explained on FreeCulture.org's Discuss list, "only decide on procedural problems or legal interpretation, not on legal qualification. As we say, 'Cassation is judge of law and not judge of facts' and this case is a matter of facts and not a matter of law..."