Guest Stuge Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 France May SOON ENACT THIS RUBBISH LAW..BoingboingFrance may soon enact the worst copyright law in Europe, sneaking it through in a legislative session scheduled for December 22 and 23.Europe's equivalent to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial directive called the EUCD. Each EU state is responsible for implementing the minimum set of EUCD restrictions (which are far from minimal!) but each state can exceed the minimum, and the entertainment lobby pushes hard to see to it that they do. They've run amok in France, subverting the lawmaking process with a farcical wish-list of penalties, mandates and software bans.Copyfighters in France have published a detailed alert in French; what follows is a loose, machine-assisted translation (substantive corrections gladly sought): * A prohibition on all software that permits transmission [disposition is unclear without greater context]of copyrighted material that does not integrate both a watermark and DRM * A prohibition on marketing or advertising such software * These prohibitions include legal sanctions< * DRM mandates for digital radio transmission * A universal wiretapping system for private communication [This is defined elsewhere as a system to check for, say, music files attached to email messages, and not one that would violate the "secret of private correspondence".] * Creation of a universal filering system for all ISPs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willykyu Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 (edited) I'm French, I live in Japan. Well, I really feel like I DON'T WANT TO GO "HOME"!!!!It's not voted yet though... Edited December 6, 2005 by willykyu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Nope, you'd better stay put. Obviously those French bureaucrats don't like music very much - first the volume restriction thing then this. The rest of the EU countries are bound to follow suit, and Sony'll probably release euro-wide DRM copyright compliant devices. Not the best news for portable music I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Sony'll probably release euro-wide DRM copyright compliant devicesSo because of French Goverment other countries in Europe will also need to share the burden of this law......No this is not right we are living in Democracy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnUnCoolCat Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Crazy eh..??On one level, we are talking state-specific implementation of controls (with the usual worst-case employed scenario of one state affecting all), and at the same time they (the EU) are talking about the need to unify the music licensing within the community (aka an EU wide unified music licensing system to reduced the need for individual state specific licensing).If one side is the left hand, the other side is the right hand, then i would hate to be the controlling brain coordinating those two 'hands' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 I'm French, I live in Japan. Well, I really feel like I DON'T WANT TO GO "HOME"!!!!It's not voted yet though...←If such law come into act then there are many people who will make such softwares to break it also.So don`t worry Go Home!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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