I think that you didn't read right the text law ( available on legifrance ):
Ces dispositions s'appliquent quelles que soient les versions linguistiques de l'oeuvre fixée sur ces supports.
This law applies without any restrictions with languages availables on the support.
This law prevent the sale of a DVD (Zone 1 or even Belgium Zone 2 which are available a few months before) IF:
the movie due to be featured in a theater in France
AND
the 6 months delay following the first presentation at theater is not over.
This law is COMMERCIAL and has nothing to do with culture. It ensures movies distributors to make money by selling theater tickets. I don't see the problem for the USA as this law follow their way of thinking: patent, copyright holder, money...
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I think that you didn't read right the text law ( available on legifrance ):
Ces dispositions s'appliquent quelles que soient les versions linguistiques de l'oeuvre fixée sur ces supports.
This law applies without any restrictions with languages availables on the support.
This law prevent the sale of a DVD (Zone 1 or even Belgium Zone 2 which are available a few months before) IF:
This law is COMMERCIAL and has nothing to do with culture. It ensures movies distributors to make money by selling theater tickets. I don't see the problem for the USA as this law follow their way of thinking: patent, copyright holder, money...
This is all the difference between US culture and enropean culture: we do not watch movies like we eat french fries in MacDonald's...
And the "fight" people are talking about could be the right to consider culture as something different than food.
I had the same problem with a K6/2/333 without a sound card. Then I configured a old soundcard and miracle, no more Bus Error with java!