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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity... for the distribution majors only?

By Greg. Original by Lionel - 29/11/2005 13:13:48 CET - Category: Internet
The French Parliament is about to rush the vote of a bill which may overturn basic freedoms we thought of as granted. It is the DADVSI bill (Authoring and related rights in the information society), which is a hardcore transposition of the EUCD European directive. It seems taylored to protect the earnings of the distribution majors.
Of course we are not law specialists and our goal here is not to proceed to a thorough analysis of the text. But for the record here are some of its deeply worrying parts:
- Web radios will have to include DRM in the streaming so as to make it impossible to record them.
- A significant number of free softwares will become illegal: DRM being a proprietary technology, it will be impossible to implement it as open source.
- Expecting P2P to be replaced by a Peer to mail system, distribution majors demand emails to be controlled.
This were just a few exemples to show how far this law is going.
To get a clearer picture of what this is all about, here is one the few articles available in English on the topic:
http://www.infos-du-net.com
A piece of my mind (in the following I'm not writing in the name of Macbidouille nor HardMac):
If this bill remains as is, I'll go take the street and demonstrate. I encourage you to do the same, leaving your computers behind for a few hours so we can go on using them. Our politics must understand that they're going the wrong way listening to these wealthy pipers instead of the people they're supposed to represent.
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