french copyright law plans

general description:
http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html

the worst parts I read about yesterday apart from banning free software were:
- no copyrighted data may be transmitted without DRM
- reading digitally protected information with aquireing a licence (this includes watching DVDs under linux, since there are no commercial players) ) - prison and €300,000

i'll make a point of never moving to conservative france - or france in general if this doesn't change

it's obvious why they're doing this right before christmas - less public interest in politics since everyone is so busy.

Gives you this nice warm and fuzzy feeling inside.

Now the US copyright laws aren't looking so bad in comparison. They are still bad, though.

it gives me a VERY bad feeling because germany's new government is conservative and germany and france are very closely linked. german-french friendship, EU etc.
so who knows what germany will come up with...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=avOoTq8aXkU8&refer=europe

France legalized P2P filesharing. It isn't all bad.

this is crazy. it just doesn't fit.
Ils sont fous, les français.

Lets just hope that legislation doesn't pass, I doubt it will since some departments of France's govt uses Linux. It would be like the US turning its back on their beloved M$

I suppose you're right.
merry christmas (If you say this is humbug, I agree)