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France to Legalize File Sharing
quenting writes "In the debate around the anti-piracy bill, the French Parliament voted yesterday into law an amendment to the DADVSI bill that allows free sharing of music and movies over the internet, considering the downloaded files as a private copy. This decision goes against the French government and the music industry's recommendations, who argue the deputies only wanted to show their independence from the government. The initial bill's detractors who pushed for this amendment want a tax for author rights to be paid by everyone on the ISP fees." The French government has vowed to fight this decision (babelfish link).
I smell a really big merde storm brewing here!...:-P..
Harpo Tunnel Syndrome--my wrist feels funny.
I hear they are into BDSM over there, so they probably would be quite excited if you did both.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Not to mention iTune and Virgin prepaid cards being distributed to the parliament members in the Hall of l'Assemblée Nationale. France is not yet accustomed to such blatant lobbying, prefering more hypocritical means of pressure.
So far so good but the government is certainly going to pull a Cheney on this (as in "pulling cheney back to vote patrioct act prolongation).
If the text is finalized, i guess french ISP will see a major surge in overseas subscriptions.
--- Back to the trees, back to the trees !
Isn't that some kind of operating system?
A country where I will be free to share my William Shatner and David Hasselhoff MP3s with others!
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
I hereby suspend my France-Bashing for 24 hours!
Good man yourself... are you sure your government will let you do that? I mean they spent a lot of cash on brainwashing you to dislike France because they wouldn't join your half cocked crusade, they might be upset at the waste of their money!
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
Nobody cares.
France legalizing file sharing and Canada legalizing group sex:s _home&articleID=2125712
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=new
It sure is dull to be an American
Abortion isn't necessarily "legal" but it's not "illegal" either.
JULES
Well, abortion is legal there, right?
VINCENT
Yeah, it's legal, but is ain't a
hundred percent legal. I mean you
can't walk into a restaurant, roll
an abortion, and start puffin' away.
You're only supposed to abort in
your home or certain designated
places.
JULES
Those are abortion bars?
VINCENT
Yeah, it breaks down like this:
it's legal to buy it, it's legal to
own it and, if you're the
proprietor of a abortion bar, it's
legal to sell it. It's legal to
carry it, which doesn't really
matter 'cause -- get a load of this
-- if the cops stop you, it's
illegal for this to search you.
Searching you is a right that the
cops in Amsterdam don't have...
(Welcome to my twisted stream of consciousness...)