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It doesn't matter if the user is in France. What should matter is if the site is located in France.

You don't realy get this "internet" thing, do you. What matters is not where "the site is located" (whatever that means). What matters is where the company is doing business. Facebook does business in France, French law applies.

FACEBOOK FRANCE
Societe 530085802
108 AVENUE DE WAGRAM
75017 PARIS
FRANCE

http://www.societe.com/societe/facebook-france-530085802.html

They can levy all the fines they want, but unless Facebook exists as an entity inside of that country, does that country really have any jurisdiction?

http://www.societe.com/societe/facebook-france-530085802.html

FACEBOOK FRANCE
Société : 530085802

108 AVENUE DE WAGRAM
75017 PARIS
FRANCE

Just because Twitter has a presence in France doesn't mean France has the ability to enforce its laws on a company that's American owned - whether those French laws are fair or not don't play a role here - it's a matter of who is ruling and who isn't - http://www.societe.com/societe/twitter-france-sas-789305596.html

...Twitter France (if it exists)...

It does. See: http://www.societe.com/societe/twitter-france-sas-789305596.html but all that is irrelevant. We're talking American interests versus other interests. Juridication and moral issues don't play a role here. It's about who can impose his views and who can't.

Because Twitter is registered in France, thus they are liable (or at least Twitter France SAS is). http://www.societe.com/societe/twitter-france-sas-789305596.html [In french, registration numbers are the RCS and the SIRET]

And it's on: famous french blogger Maitre Eolas relayed the news much earlier this morning (does the guy even sleep ?), which then was picked up by L'Express (national newspaper) half an hour ago. It will be all over french social networks for the next couple days. Apparently the restaurant is not owned by McDonald's, it is a franchise owned by the limited-liability society Elyrest.

AD CONSULTING
RCS Montpellier B 478 502 123
Nom commercial : K-OTIK SECURITY
Renseignements juridiques
Siège social 1B Boulevard Berthelot
34000 MONTPELLIER
SIRET 47850212300019
Forme juridique Société à responsabilité limitée
Capital social 10.000,00 EURO
Code activité 721Z - Conseil en systèmes informatiques
Immatriculation 08-09-2004
Nationalité France
Dirigeant(s) Associé-Gérant M. BEKRAR Chaouki
Dépôt légal 08-09-2004 Formation de société

there are tools to automatically generate large amounts of code just from simple UML diagrams

To take it one step further, if you can design a complete model, there are tools that can implement that model (for example, in C)...

Well, your link doesn't work for me, so her's a proper whois :
0 fred@discworld ~ > whois jackito-pda.com

Found a referral to whois.networksolutions.com.

NOTICE AND TERMS OF USE: (snip, blah blah)

Registrant:
NOVINIT (KEHCTFLLRD)
66 BIS AVENUE JEAN MOULIN
PARIS 75014
FR

Domain Name: JACKITO-PDA.COM

Administrative Contact:
NOVINIT (37932731O) info@novinit.com
66 BIS AVENUE JEAN MOULIN
PARIS 75014
FR
+33130822620

Technical Contact:
AMEN (CNRCQDHXLO) internic@amen.fr
12-14, rond point des Champs Elysees
Paris, France 75008
FR
+33 892 55 66 77

Record expires on 28-May-2005.
Record created on 28-May-2004.
Database last updated on 13-Jul-2004 06:36:48 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.HOST7X24.COM 62.193.206.146
NS2.HOST7X24.COM 195.154.205.16

Now this company Novinit actually is a registered company (as a "société anonyme"), headed by a guy called Arnaud de la Fouchardière (quite a number of hits through Google). The funds (capital social) of the company is 1.439.867,88 .

Novinit was apparently incorporated in may 1999.

So if it's a hoax, it doesn't seem to be organized from a random cellar but rather comes from a traceable corporation (data grabbed from here).

So it *might* be legit.

Novinit is not a registered company name in France.

So? http://www.societe.com/cgi-bin/recherche?rncs=4228 99021&vu=1. Better get your facts straight next time before making such false statements. You know, that a company can hold you liable for such defamatory nonsense?

(IANA French L, but I play one on Slashdot)

According to the French legislation,
Article L. 122-5 from the Intellectual Property Code (in French, sorry)
in 2nd alinea it is said that you can copy non-software intellectual property for the private use of the copist.
(and it's the same text that allows fair use, in alinea 3.)

about twenty years ago (when audio tape appeared), the definition of "the copist" was refined to be "the owner of the copying apparatus".
For instance, you can copy CD albums to run them in your car CD player, as long as you still own the CD burner.
a few years ago, when CD burners were REALLY expensive, "CD copy center" shops appeared, where you brought your cd to copy, they selled you the balnk CD, and copied it for a fee. it was a fringe case of private copy, and the finally were shut down...

and to answer to another post, it won't be a govnernment office who will administrate the tax, it'a a small company (which already gets the taxes from analogic blank media) the SORECOP

it's due to get about 700 M FF(106 M Euro) in 2001 woth of taxes and it's been obfuscating (sp?) its accounting data since 1996.

there's a article (in French) on this here :
http://www.liberation.com/quotidien/debats/septemb re99/990906f.html

Bazoungus.
(french and late at work)