‘Decriminalize file sharing’
p2pnet.net News:- More trouble for the entertainment cartels.
Now no less a personage than the president of the French magistrates’ union wants file sharing for personal use decriminalized in France.
We are in the process of creating a cultural rupture between a younger generation that uses the technologies that companies and societies have made available, such as the iPod, file download software, peer-to-peer networks, etc.,” Judge Dominique Barella told Wired News.
“It’s like condemning people for driving too fast after selling them cars that go 250 kmh.”
In March Barella wrote an article in Libération,:following rulings by French judges who suspended jail time and fines for alleged perpetrators who were caught downloading music for their personal use, says the story, going on:
The leniency of the French judges illustrates what Barella describes as confusion over the definition of the intellectual property protection law. Instead, a more appropriate policy needs to be adopted in France and in Europe that protects what he says are mostly young people of the MP3 generation who are weak targets against the machinations of the entertainment industry’s legal agenda.
And as Wired points out, France isn’t alone in resisting the entertainment industry’s copyright enforcement efforts.
Canada`s Federal appeals court has thrown out a bid by the Big Music cartel`s CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) to overturn a lower court ruling which held that ISPs aren`t required to reveal the identities of customers said to have shared files with each other.
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See:-
Wired News – Volez ce MP3!, May 23, 2005
thrown out a bid – CIPPIC on Big Music’s defeat, p2pnet, May 21, 2005
May 23rd, 2005 at 7:16 pm
hmmmm, seems like the export of American domestic policies (ie DMCA) onto soveriegn nations isn’t quite taking like the **AAs desperatly want before people wake up to the reality of the situation and realize how much BS these entities are spewing to protect their obscene money making monopolies…
TT
May 23rd, 2005 at 8:05 pm
The smoke and mirror tactics of the media moguls is being exposed for what it is. Nothing of substance other than alarmist crap by over greedy megacorporations. How nice and refreshing to see Canada and France do what should have been done here. However we have all the crooks that Washington and the country can stand at present occupying public buildings and until the voting public sends them the message that megacorporations don’t come first it will continue. At present I am proud to show you the finest laws that money can buy.
Glickman has went to China to shake his fist in the leaders of that country, doing his best to spread the doom and gloom scenerio. While screaming that on line unpaid for downloads are killing the industries, highest ever incomes are being reported at the box offices. The “leaked” movie hitting the internet isn’t from camcorders as was always stated. I would strongly suspect it is leaked on purpose (though there will be some poor fall guy to take the rap) as a means of cost free advertisement that is in no way either threatening to box office reciepts nor of quality in such a way as to even come close to theather presentations. This goes to show that folks will spend money but only for what they deem worth seeing. Don’t expect a D grade movie copycat to do the same. The arguement they are losing their profits is shot holes in by this one example alone. Their problem comes when they try to hock off subpar films as prime enterainment. No one wants to pay the same price nor do they have the same following of loyal fans wanting to see trash. Major industry is slowly teeing off the loyal fans and more and more those fans are turning on the industry that they depend on for their financial well being.
(scarcasm included free of charge and without DRM)
May 23rd, 2005 at 10:04 pm
“and until the voting public sends them the message that megacorporations don’t come first it will continue. At present I am proud to show you the finest laws that money can buy.”
unfortunately there is a disturbing trend in American media to be nothing more than a puppet for the political party in power (read Republicans and cable news, first and foremost Fox news) which spins and distorts facts and reality to propagandize the citizens into towing the party line b/c they know no better…thereby relegating an informed voting public to a thing of the past, there are much more insidious movements than the **AAs at work here, it’s just at this time they work in conjunction b/c it suits both.
http://www.fair.org/index.php
http://mediamatters.org/
TT
May 24th, 2005 at 10:33 am
Then I could move there or Canada and get away from all this crazyness!