French 3 strikes ‘Creation et Internet’
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Today is THE day in France. March 10 marks the date of the final debate for the adoption of the country’s “Creation et Internet”.
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/projets/pl1240.asp (in French).
Says Philippe Axel »»»
The French governement wants to disconnect websurfers after three emails warnings and the debates starts at the National Assembly (final vote). The proposition of law called “Creation et Internet” has the goal to create a new administration called “Hadopi” with the ability to cut an internet connection for few months.Musical and films industry hopes that 10 000 warning emails a day will stop P2P sharing. It’s not a joke.It’s very serious.
The movement “La Quadrature du Net” issues:
A call to all freedom-cherishing citizens to a “black-out” of their sites, blogs, profiles, avatars,… As has been done in New Zealand, the only other country with France where the “graduated response” would have been imposed by law, and was finally pushed back: to protest against this stupid law and its “white list” of authorized websites, the French Web must act and dress in black.”
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/french-net-blackout-against-graduated-response
You can see an example on my blog: http://www.philaxel.com. Many french profiles pictures in facebook are now in black.
Thanks to consider that all europe and USA waits for the result of this debate and vote to do simply the same…
In the maintime, la quadrature add this very important information:
“Rapporteurs for the European Parliament on the directives of the Telecoms Package, have just released their draft reports for the second reading. Some improvements were made, like the reintroduction of amendments 138 & 166. About “Net discrimination”, the worst was avoided, but there is still a blatant lack for clarification and concrete guarantees that Telecom operators won’t be allowed full control over the m Internet.
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/telecoms-package-a-little-extra-effort-required
Cheers
Philippe Axel
http://www.philaxel.com
[NOTE: I'm afraid I'm feeling too cruddy to do much today so I'm simply going to post headings with notes and links and ask anyone who's interested to perhaps post more data under individual items, if they feel so inclined. Cheers! And thanks - Jon.]
March, 2009
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March 11th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Another stupid French law that will have no effect just like the last one because you can not monitor content, save for pissing off more people and increase the Boycott.