France to Legalize File Sharing 446
quenting writes "In the debate around the anti-piracy bill, the French Parliament voted yesterday into law an amendment to the DADVSI bill that allows free sharing of music and movies over the internet, considering the downloaded files as a private copy. This decision goes against the French government and the music industry's recommendations, who argue the deputies only wanted to show their independence from the government. The initial bill's detractors who pushed for this amendment want a tax for author rights to be paid by everyone on the ISP fees." The French government has vowed to fight this decision (babelfish link).
Who would have guessed it? (Score:2, Funny)
Merde!! (Score:4, Funny)
I smell a really big merde storm brewing here!...:-P..
Re:France are weird (Score:5, Funny)
I hear they are into BDSM over there, so they probably would be quite excited if you did both.
Heavyhanded lobbying (Score:5, Funny)
So far so good but the government is certainly going to pull a Cheney on this (as in "pulling cheney back to vote patrioct act prolongation).
If the text is finalized, i guess french ISP will see a major surge in overseas subscriptions.
Re:France are weird (Score:3, Funny)
At last! (Score:5, Funny)
A country where I will be free to share my William Shatner and David Hasselhoff MP3s with others!
This just in . . . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I hereby suspend my France-Bashing for 24 hours (Score:5, Funny)
I hereby suspend my France-Bashing for 24 hours!
Good man yourself... are you sure your government will let you do that? I mean they spent a lot of cash on brainwashing you to dislike France because they wouldn't join your half cocked crusade, they might be upset at the waste of their money!
Would you like some Freedom Fries (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who would have guessed it? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not convinced that the post is from an American. True, the grammar is poor, but the post contains no spelling mistakes, references to "nukes", or brain-dead cowboy-isms such as references to being "fur us or agin us". If indeed an American, the poster a member of the very small minority of relative sophisticates that inhabit a land that it seems is populated, in the majority, by frothing lunatic throwbacks who are too addle-brained to realize or care that fascism is descending upon their once great land.
This just in... (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody cares.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=new
It sure is dull to be an American
Re:I hereby suspend my France-Bashing for 24 hours (Score:2, Funny)
LOL, they said France and fight in the same sentence.
This just in...
France surrenders to Kazzaa...
Re:I hereby suspend my France-Bashing for 24 hours (Score:5, Funny)
JULES
Well, abortion is legal there, right?
VINCENT
Yeah, it's legal, but is ain't a
hundred percent legal. I mean you
can't walk into a restaurant, roll
an abortion, and start puffin' away.
You're only supposed to abort in
your home or certain designated
places.
JULES
Those are abortion bars?
VINCENT
Yeah, it breaks down like this:
it's legal to buy it, it's legal to
own it and, if you're the
proprietor of a abortion bar, it's
legal to sell it. It's legal to
carry it, which doesn't really
matter 'cause -- get a load of this
-- if the cops stop you, it's
illegal for this to search you.
Searching you is a right that the
cops in Amsterdam don't have...
(Welcome to my twisted stream of consciousness...)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Funny)
If Canada gets legal file sharing you can smoke pot there, trade music, and have group sex. Sure the climate sucks, but with all of that who cares?
Re:I hereby suspend my France-Bashing for 24 hours (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry.
Apology accepted.
Re:It will not pass. (Score:3, Funny)
"Yes" is a valid answer.
How many governments does France have? (Score:3, Funny)
and I thought U.S. government was confusing.