Comments on: French p2p file sharing law

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:40:23 +0000

As I guessed, the governement used all its power to overturn this law.
Sorry, France hasn’t become the P2P Eldorado.

But all DMCA lovers will love our country with the ultra-restrictive DRM laws they’ll vote tomorrow.

Christian Vanneste, rapporter of the law said in the parliament that “DRM are required to identify the authors of an artwork and therefore that DRM are required to sell music online”. Strange, existing P2P networks’s search engines identify quite well the available tracks and reply to your query quite accurately.

And once you know what the downloaded track is, an appropriate database could also tell you who it’s author is… No need of DRM for that !

Next steps :
- Massive information of the mainstream audiance about what DRM are
- Boycott of all DRMed stuff (already underway)
- Make DRM & file sharing a major issue of 2007’s presidential race.

We’ve lost a battle, but we won’t lose the war !

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:05:56 +0000

Instead of letting Folks Advertise in MP3 (Compressed & Low Quality Format), generally MP3 sucks anyway, it’s not one of the best sounding Formats! Generally, the best one closest to CD Quality, [is the CD!!!]

So, the Idiots (RIAA & their Supporters like suing $$$ those who Advertise their Compressed, Low Quality Tunes Product, in an attempt to Brainwash the Masses into believing, portraying these poor People as Pirates & Criminals!

Greedy Organisations must be Punished!!

The only REAL EVIL is, making Money of someone else work, obviously that’s just Plain wrong… (Esp. without Permission)

Those who’re into doing that, are the the REAL Criminals & Pirates!!!

Danny

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:27:40 +0000

The new law project is just silly :

- 38 euros ($45) fines for downloading copyrighted stuff but 750 euros ($820) for breaking a DRM : Better download illegally than legally if you want to use your music even if you change your computer !

- Fair use WILL be guaranted by the law. It will however be limited. The limit can be set at zero copies (like for the DVDs). In other words, fair use won’t be forbidden, you will only be allowed to use this right zero times… Silly !
Don’t forget that in france, we have a blank media levy to compensate the “losses” due to fair use… Of course, that levy won’t get lifted, even if the fair use right will be set at zero copies.

Those politicians should think about two things :
- In one year, we’ll have presidential and legislative elections.
- There are an estimated 10.000.000 filesharers in France (out of a 62.000.000 total population). By far enough to make the election…