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).

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Are you surrendering?

[Z-Knight]

I am French,...

Are you surrendering to me?

;)

Re:I hereby suspend my France-Bashing for 24 hours

[RichardX]

I don't know if you're trolling with your sig ("If man evolved from apes, why are there still apes and not more people?"), mean it as a genuine question, or even as some form of sarcasm, but for what it's worth I'll bite...

Man did not evolve from apes. Man and apes evolved from a common ancestor.
That's it, it's that simple.

If your sig was meant as some kind of irony, then 'scuse me for wasting your time, my irony detector must be broken
If it was meant genuinely, then I hope this helped, and I would also direct you to the excellent Evolution 101 website which will fill you in on many other aspects of how evolution works
And if it was meant as a troll, well, I guess you got your laugh.