France angers Big Music
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The Big 4 record labels, Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US), are distinctly unhappy with France’s National Assembly.
Unlike South Korea, which is full stream ahead with corporate entertainment cartel plans to have the government act as a state-run korporate kopyright kop, with local taxpayers picking up the bill, the French assembly has thwarted president Nicolas Sarkozy’s efforts to get the French version immediately in place.
Instead, a decision to vote on the Three Strikes law has been put off until September, giving opponents more time to rally support against it.
Under new entertainment industry rules, France’s Higher Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Copyright on the Internet (Hadopi) agency would, “oversee a system of educational warning letters, although it will not be able to administer the three-strikes measure to cut off consistent copyright infringers as originally planned,” says Billboard, adding:
“In a statement expressing its ‘great disappointment and genuine anger’ on the vote deferment, publishers and songwriters collecting society Sacem said: ‘While [our members] see their income from the phonograph market shrink year after year, month after month, with no compensation from [Internet Service Provider] online services to make up for their loss, because of the impact of piracy in particular, they solemnly ask the members of parliament to take their responsibilities to answer this institution of justice’.”
What a load of wankers.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
full stream ahead – South Korea calls for self-censoring, July 24, 2009
Billboard – French Anti-Piracy Sanctions Delayed, July 23, 2009
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July 24th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
start making quality products ppl want to buy, and get inline with todays shopping methods, you stupid bastards, thats all i have to say
July 24th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
the RIAA is pissed off because they can not use their wine and dine tactics to turn the government of france on its own people.
mental note RIAA tactics = bad public relations
July 24th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
“compensation from [Internet Service Provider] online services to make up for their loss” ??? Firstly, “compensation” is a propanda term and should be rejected, secondly, since when the ISPs should pay them? See http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/words-to-avoid.html#Compensation : “To speak of âcompensation for authorsâ in connection with copyright carries the assumptions that (1) copyright exists for the sake of authors and (2) whenever we read something, we take on a debt to the author which we must then repay. The first assumption is simply false, and the second is outrageous.”
July 25th, 2009 at 12:50 am
“French assembly has thwarted president Nicolas Sarkozyâs efforts to get the French version immediately in place.
Instead, a decision to vote on the Three Strikes law has been put off until September, giving opponents more time to rally support against it.”
I have not been particularly impressed with the French people as a whole over the past 10-15 years, but this move by their National Assembly is great. I hope they can hold out and make it stick, dont let the bastards push HADOPI down
your throats, viva le resistance’!!
stw