And, Just Like That, France Rejects Three Strikes
from the pendulum-swinging dept
The situation in France just gets stranger and stranger when it comes to the proposed "three strikes" law for kicking music and movie fans off the internet. You probably know that just last week it was approved by legislators in a surprise vote, where just a small number of elected officials waited until most others (who believed the vote would be held later) had left before holding the vote. This resulted in cheers from Hollywood and others in the legacy entertainment business. However, now it appears that The National Assembly has surprised everyone back by rejecting the measure, but with a similarly small group of officials voting. The law was rejected 21 - 15 in what's described as "a near-empty National Assembly." I'm sure more will come out about how this happened, but perhaps politicians who were upset about how it passed in the first place, just played the same trick back. Either way, I'm sure this is not the end of this issue in France (or elsewhere).Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Holy Shnikes!
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An American and French were talking...
The French guy says, "We get red when we discuss it, white when legislation discusses it, and blue when government passes it."
The American says, "We're the same way, except we see also see stars."
Pretty much sums it all up.
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Jesus
Why can't anyone in any government actually show a backbone, stand up and say "No, you aren't going to do things that way, because it's WRONG", and act as an example to the rest of their country. I mean, i'm all for this law getting bitch slapped, but if they don't do it the right way they're just going to muddy the waters instead of actually getting anything DONE.
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"Legacy Entertainment Business"
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So no, that's NOT what you do.
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This was more about sending a message that you won't do it (pass a law) the wrong way. If you do, we'll just do the same thing and reverse it. I'm impressed at how this was handle. Besides, if nothing else it makes politics entertaining.
Of course, in my state, the best political entertainment of all is the new heavy weight match up between Sheriff Joe and Al Sharpton. Think about it, two major political figures with egos as large as this planet itself. Al Sharpton telling Sheriff Joe he'd better resign or else and Sheriff Joe saying essentially bring it on. Both of these men aren't used to losing and I think this may be the last real fight for them (long careers - getting close to retirement). If you didn't know the subject matter, I think these two were promoting a boxing match or something.
It is also interesting since our former Governor started an investigation and then a month later Al Sharpton comes after Joe. Pretty much tells me that our former Governor couldn't nail Joe on anything legally so they are going after him with Al Sharpton and the Press. I've never seen Joe loose a battle when the Press was involved so this should be truly interesting and entertaining.
This is almost as good as when we had Fife Symington as our Governor - Fife, we miss you! So close to having our income taxes reduced to 0. Why man did you have to piss off the feds... why.... why.... :)
Who needs reality TV shows when you have politics!
(Sorry for the tangent!)
Freedom
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These situations I mention are groups that did not have the best interests of society at heart propagating actions that also were not necessarily in the best interests of society. I don't see how replying to this tactic with a tit for tat makes the nation any worse off (remember, this was the status quo a few days ago), as long as the ultimate objective is to end this kind of nonsense.
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hmm . . . Pretty Funny
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3 strikes
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It will probably be back and pass for good next time.
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"Capone got to where he was by being more brutal and violent than any of the other bootleggers."
Thoroughly false. Capone largely built his empire by bribing EVERYONE, including the Mayor, NOT by being particularly violent. In levels of pure brutality, no one bested the Northside Gang and Bugs Moran. In fact, Capone's downfall only began BECAUSE of public outrage at the Valentine's Day Massacre. Up until then, his "I'm just a businessman" line and flamboyant lifestyle had made him a celebrity here in Chicago.
"The Nazis ascended to power by being more exploitative than anybody else and wiping out their enemies"
Arguable at best. A more accurate description would be that they came to power by taking advantage of corrupt bankers and industrialists (Ford, Rockafeller, Dulles brothers, Citibank, etc.) that thought they could make money by using Germany to create a global conflict against communism. When Hitler got out of control, they turned on him, then ended up using the United States to "fight" communism instead, making money off of the Cold War. Communism has since gone away, so now we're on to terrorism. Can't wait to see who they fictionally make our enemy next...
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local view
is this news presented by france's largest daily.
the gov't spokesperson has stated clearly that "this vote only slows adoption of this proposal, it does not block it." it's going to be re-introduced on april 28, after the national assembly's easter break.
most interesting is that the minister of culture, christine albanel, is non-apologetic about the law: "this law is the result of an accord between artists, copyright holders and telecoms"
so where is the public?
and mike was right, this vote was a dirty pool retaliation for dirty pool.
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It's not finished yet, unfortunately
There is now greater media exposure about this law for the general public about this law (i.e. not the usual geeks), and also some artists are now opposing the law. Let's cross fingers :)
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The law will probably pass in a few weeks, as article 45 paragraph 4 makes possible, before being proved unenforceable.
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