France's Extremely Brief Experiment With Legalized File Sharing
from the how-long-will-this-last? dept
Talk about an about face! Yesterday, we noted that France was considering a bill that would put file sharers in jail for three years, despite their courts saying personal file sharing was legal and musicians begging the industry to stop suing their fans. Late last night, we added a short update to that post, noting a story coming out that France had actually gone the other way (surprising just about everyone) and passed a nearly completely opposite amendment that said private, non-commercial file sharing was just fine (supporting the earlier court ruling). Today, more details are coming out, and it sounds like this move won't last very long. Amusingly, the apoplectic recording industry representative says: "The deputies used this vote to show their independence from the government, but they don't know what they are doing." First of all, we were under the impression that the French Parliament was the government -- and it seems pretty clear that they do know what they're doing, which is trying to send a message that the overreaching efforts of the industry are a problem. Of course, there's very little likelihood that this amendment stands. The actual vote was done late at night, with just a small number of the members of Parliament present. It's quite likely that the debate will be reopened today, and the amendment ditched -- and then we'll be back to talking about prison time for music fans.
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Let them eat cake?
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"Allez y au prison. Allez y directement au prison. Ne passez pas "Allez". Ne collectionez pas 1,105.47 Francs"
:D
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(I recognize the irony that I too partake of this institution.)
The point being, it doesn't matter what the french do; it never has. Why pay attention to a society that can't even come to grips with their own social minority problems?
What the french decide to do in regards to this case are meaningless for the rest of the world.
Perhaps other people’s opinions are too much for you to handle though…
Would you care to make another hostile comment?
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Oh... and for hostility's sake:
"Go away or I will taunt you a second time, you daffy English ka-nig-its" :)
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"we are french; where do you think i got this outrageous accent?"
"whot are you doing in england then?"
"Minda your own bizness you silly king!"
i'll stop now...
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Thanks for the laugh! :D
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Seriously, you are a freaking idiot.
dylan
(not the other anon, that guy is an idiot too.)
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ummm, we can't either.
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Two precisions
- They will talk about this issue in january, but for now, the "majority leader" has refused to re-examine the amendment right away, which was another blow for the Minister. It is not clear how this will end.
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I see I'm not the only one who failed grammar in school... :D
Actually here's the monopoly translation directly from the card:
"Allez en prison. Ne franchissez pas la case départ. Ne touchez pas 20,000 F"
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With that aside. This was also posted on /. with plenty of supportive information for both sides of the coin. Personally, I think it's good, but it won't make it because of how the French government works.
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