Yahoo can put french Ad Banners when I connect to Yahoo US from France. So Yahoo can detect if I come from france (provided I do not trick the system).
So from Yahoo's side, Yahoo can do what is possible, ie implement the same kind of thing to prevent french users to access this data. Doing this, they will comply withthe french law.
Now if a french user tricks the system by faking IP or such things, and does it in order to get access to stuff that is forbidden in France, then it's not anymore Yahoo's problem, it's the user which can be sued, becaused he tricked the system to get access to forbidden stuff.
About the fact that any other country can sue Yahoo, they have taken precaution against that, and considered that they will remove things that promote hatred, which if done with the right discretion, can be OK.
Henri Poincare proposed such a calendar more than a century ago. (13 months of 28 days, and the free day when you change years).
Guess what? No one took it.
Before 'inventing' such things, I guess that guy should first search and read what was done before, and why it failed. And give credit when he steals such concepts.
Please.
I do not comment the way you speak french, and your accent. You speak that way, I respect it. Here in france we have different regionalisms and different accent, some of them being funny, but respectable.
And please, don't generalize like this. Minitel, when it was invented, was in front of everyone technology-wise. Now it's out, because of Internet, but we are not sticking to it, and Internet is developping quite well, thanks.
I'm not telling we're better than anyone, I try to respect everyone with it's differences.
Your comments about women shaving or not is quite strange. It seems to be one of the misconceptions people from Quebec have about us, I don't understand. Please do not say such things without knowing, but rather come and visit us, and check french women, who are (most of them, still checking) shaved...
I think you're mixing different stuff here.
What the new law says, is that zone 1 DVDs will not be allowed to be sold in France before 6 months after the movie has come out.
This is basically a lobbying problem between the Hollywood majors and their distributors in Europe.
Zone 1 movies are american movies. They were distributed 'directly' in zone 1 DVD, before going out in theaters, thus harming the business of the european distributors of the same films.
It has nothing to do with the 'cultural exception' some of you talk about.
The 'cultural exception' is a try from french government to protect french cinema against american one. The reason behind this is that french and american film makers, generally, do not have the same conception about filmmaking. Cinema in the US is a business, a film is a marketing product, targeted at the worldwide masses. In the mind of the french cinema school, cinema is an art, and as an art, is meant to express something from the author, not necessarily to entertain or even be understood by other people.
There are of course the so-called 'independent filmmakers' in the US, but they struggle a lot to get money and be distributed, and it would help also to have some way of helping these too...
In most european countries other than France, american movies have eaten all the market share, and the local creativity has mostly died, or struggles to produce rare films.
This is about monopoly and diversity. I have seen a few english, spanish or portuguese movies, and found them great. And I would like to see more of them. Each culture has it's own things to say, that can profit the others.
Holywood movies and independent movies do not provide the same pleasure, but I like both of them, and both of them are needed.
An analogy could be made with the Microsoft antitrust thing: sometimes, if you let market regule itself, it does not do it right, and government has to step in and protect the small.
I think it would be better for everyone if you could see more european movies in the US...
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Yahoo can put french Ad Banners when I connect to Yahoo US from France. So Yahoo can detect if I come from france (provided I do not trick the system). So from Yahoo's side, Yahoo can do what is possible, ie implement the same kind of thing to prevent french users to access this data. Doing this, they will comply withthe french law.
Now if a french user tricks the system by faking IP or such things, and does it in order to get access to stuff that is forbidden in France, then it's not anymore Yahoo's problem, it's the user which can be sued, becaused he tricked the system to get access to forbidden stuff.
About the fact that any other country can sue Yahoo, they have taken precaution against that, and considered that they will remove things that promote hatred, which if done with the right discretion, can be OK.
Henri Poincare proposed such a calendar more than a century ago. (13 months of 28 days, and the free day when you change years). Guess what? No one took it.
Before 'inventing' such things, I guess that guy should first search and read what was done before, and why it failed. And give credit when he steals such concepts.
Please.
I do not comment the way you speak french, and your accent. You speak that way, I respect it. Here in france we have different regionalisms and different accent, some of them being funny, but respectable.
And please, don't generalize like this. Minitel, when it was invented, was in front of everyone technology-wise. Now it's out, because of Internet, but we are not sticking to it, and Internet is developping quite well, thanks.
I'm not telling we're better than anyone, I try to respect everyone with it's differences.
Your comments about women shaving or not is quite strange. It seems to be one of the misconceptions people from Quebec have about us, I don't understand. Please do not say such things without knowing, but rather come and visit us, and check french women, who are (most of them, still checking) shaved...
I think you're mixing different stuff here. What the new law says, is that zone 1 DVDs will not be allowed to be sold in France before 6 months after the movie has come out.
This is basically a lobbying problem between the Hollywood majors and their distributors in Europe. Zone 1 movies are american movies. They were distributed 'directly' in zone 1 DVD, before going out in theaters, thus harming the business of the european distributors of the same films.
It has nothing to do with the 'cultural exception' some of you talk about. The 'cultural exception' is a try from french government to protect french cinema against american one. The reason behind this is that french and american film makers, generally, do not have the same conception about filmmaking. Cinema in the US is a business, a film is a marketing product, targeted at the worldwide masses. In the mind of the french cinema school, cinema is an art, and as an art, is meant to express something from the author, not necessarily to entertain or even be understood by other people.
There are of course the so-called 'independent filmmakers' in the US, but they struggle a lot to get money and be distributed, and it would help also to have some way of helping these too...
In most european countries other than France, american movies have eaten all the market share, and the local creativity has mostly died, or struggles to produce rare films.
This is about monopoly and diversity. I have seen a few english, spanish or portuguese movies, and found them great. And I would like to see more of them. Each culture has it's own things to say, that can profit the others.
Holywood movies and independent movies do not provide the same pleasure, but I like both of them, and both of them are needed.
An analogy could be made with the Microsoft antitrust thing: sometimes, if you let market regule itself, it does not do it right, and government has to step in and protect the small.
I think it would be better for everyone if you could see more european movies in the US...