Chirac on p2p file sharing
p2p news / p2pnet: In December, 2005, France became the first country to propose the legalization of p2p downloading. Niether p2pnet’s Alex H, nor a lot of other people, thought this stood much chance of actually happening.
Now French president Jacques Chirac has, "added his opinions to the somewhat confusing debate on illegal file sharing that has been doing the rounds in French political circles in the last few weeks," says New Criminologist.
"At the end of last year in bizarre sequence of events a government drafted bill that proposed tougher punishments for people who illegally share music online was amended by the country’s parliament so that P2P file sharing would become legal," says the story.
However, Chirac hasn’t said anything to clarify the situation.
New Criminologist has Reuters quoting him as saying, "It’s with creative people that we will win in the battle over content. We should guarantee their rights and their fair payment, by finding a balance between the fight against piracy and user freedom".
Also See:
propose the legalization – P2p file sharing is legal, says France, December 22, 2005
Alex H – Will France legalize file sharing?, December 23, 2005
January 13th, 2006 at 8:41 am
For the Johannesburg World Summit in 2002, ten years after the symbolic Rio 1992, Chirac went there to declare a brilliant and humanistic speech : “Our world is burning and we show it our back!”. Wow. Chirac champion of the Sustainable Development, new archipriest of the concept.
But what has he done so far for this concept ? Peanuts. Creating an office for sustainable development and ecology. That idea wasn’t from him. That was implemented by Michel Jospin, the last Socialist Prime minister. And when the national economy has a flu, his government immediately cuts its budget.
In 2007, French voters will decide for their new president. Chirac wishes he could do it again — every politician beloves the idea of dying during his own mandate — or at least influence the vote for next chief of state. Maybe he will use his little glory taking during the second war of Irak for standing strong against Bush’s pressure.
But this would not be enough compared to the lack of inspiring policies his government has proposed until now. And, as he has often done it during his political career, he takes ideas from the French socialists. To set them back a little more before the next round of voting.
January 13th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
“Maybe he will use his little glory taking during the second war of Irak for standing strong against Bush’s pressure.”
First of all, im not a neo conservative/bush lover or anything else, but that statement stretches the bounds of truth just a little to much. The reason chirac didn’t want iraq to be invaded was because alot of french money was invested there. They were supplying weapons to iraqi, and didn’t want anything interfering with that little goldmine.
If i remember correctly, chirac was the person who sold the first nuclear reactor to iraqi, and him and sadam seemed to be best buddies.
Not that other countries are entirely blameless of course, but if you think chirac was against the war purely based on anti-war principles, i think you are delusional.
In the end, chirac is a self-serving politician who will do anything for money and power. He was even immune to procecution when his party was found to be using funds inappropiately.
I feel quite sorry for the french people, having to put up with him. Their only alternative was an extreme right wing, not much of a choice was it?
It’s what i call pseudo-democracy. The people are given such limited choice in elections that you start to wonder whats the point in even voting.
January 13th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
“Maybe he will use his little glory taking during the second war of Irak for standing strong against Bush’s pressure.”
First of all, im not a neo conservative/bush lover or anything else, but that statement stretches the bounds of truth just a little to much. The reason chirac didn’t want iraq to be invaded was because alot of french money was invested there. They were supplying weapons to iraqi, and didn’t want anything interfering with that little goldmine.
If i remember correctly, chirac was the person who sold the first nuclear reactor to iraqi, and him and sadam seemed to be best buddies.
Not that other countries are entirely blameless of course, but if you think chirac was against the war purely based on anti-war principles, i think you are delusional.
In the end, chirac is a self-serving politician who will do anything for money and power. He was even immune to procecution when his party was found to be using funds inappropiately.
I feel quite sorry for the french people, having to put up with him. Their only alternative was an extreme right wing, not much of a choice was it?
It’s what i call pseudo-democracy. The people are given such limited choice in elections that you start to wonder whats the point in even voting.
January 13th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
I’m french. You’re not far from being right.
I could show you that one or two of your arguments are pointless, but eh, isn’t even this pointless? France, like USA, UK, USSR, sold weapons to both iran and irak during their war. Since first gulf war, French gouvernment stopped selling them such marchandise. But, what did private societies? I dunno… What did american or english private societies? I dunno either.
I think you’re right about nuclear reactor. Civil, not for uranium of military quality, not enough good “centrifugeuses”. Or so, it is said… It was a mistake. Even if no Weapon of mass destuction was found, t’was a mistake. Most of what occident did here was a mistake. We, you, everybody acclaimed when that monster Sadam became president. Good guy, giving us petroleum. Pfa…
Everybody was happy when that f**ing iranian with his ugly towel on his head became leader of iran. Where are we now?
Talking about french politic, the situation in France is like a puppet show. Nothing can be done without syndicalists paralysing france and french workers. Not even imaginable in usa… Our youth (i’m not old, 28) is brainless, violent, most of them don’t even worth to be call humans. Burning cars, speaking strange way, hitting old people, killing people, stabbing professors, raping girls, stealing other. Not all young, thanks god (i’m athea, but thank god anyway). But too much. Where are we going, now? I remember the saying of a greek philosopher, describing the condition of the fall of a civilization. Exactly the situuation here in France.
I love my country, love most of its history, i’m crying when i hear “la marseillaise”, but i swear that, as soon as i can, i’ll be emigrating elsewhere. China? Usa? Canada?
I don’t want to stay in a sinking boat. “les rats quittent le navire”.
Oh, i forgot, whatever his reasons may be, i’m happy that france didn’t go to irak for the second gulf war.
Be happy for living where you live, never forget to vote, never vote extreme right or extreme left wing, remember our ancestors suffered and died while doing war to them.
bye!
January 13th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Well Said.
January 14th, 2006 at 7:10 am
I think the statement you are rebutting, that Chirac will “use his little glory taking during the second war of Irak for standing strong against Bush’s pressure”, wasn’t supposed to be an argument for why Chirac did not take France to war, but merely a suggestion that he will use the capital he gained in doing so in a political way in the next election–like Bush did in using his “mandate” of nearly 51% support from the voting US populace in dragging the nation through the muck. The home of the brave: now with torture and domestic wire-tapping!
That said, you parlayed it into a nice forum for venting on Chirac’s possible vested interests for not participating in the US’s grand coalition. But hey, who needs France? Like they advertise in all of those run-down former steel towns and disadvantaged high-schools, we have an “army of one”.
January 14th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Chirac’s statement can mean anything : He has changed his mind so often during his political career !
P.S. : Remember that if France has voted 4 Chirac in 2002, it was because his challenger was an extreme-right wing facist. Most people, by casting their “Chirac” Ballot in 2002, in fact casted a ballot against his challenger Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Since then, Chirac managed to get the worst opinion polls a president ever got since WW2 in France…