[Ecommerce] Emergency procedure for technical devices? (more bad from France)

[Manon Ress]

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Exclusive: VU/SACEM/BSA amendment forbidding software not equipped
with technical measures.

lundi 5 d=E9cembre 2005 :: English readers

An amendment to the proposed DADVSI bill has the aim of making
criminal counterfeiting out of publication, distribution and
promotion of all software susceptible to being used to open up data
protected by author's right and not integrating a method of
controlling and tracking private usage (technical measure). All
software permitting downloads is concerned, such as certain instant
messaging software (chat) and all server software (P2P, HTTP, FTP,
SSH). This surrealist amendment has been redirected from its start by
Vivendi Universal, then reworked by many members of the Sirinelli
commission, a commission of the High Council of Literary and Artistic
Property CSPLA.

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Why do we fight the DADVSI bill ?

dimanche 4 d=E9cembre 2005 :: English readers

Creating your own compilations from a CD, extracting your favourite
piece of music to listen to it on your computer, transfering it on a
MP3 player, lending a CD to a friend, reading a DVD with free
software or duplicating it to be able to enjoy it at home and in your
country house : many common practices, perfectly legal, which the
French government plans to forbid in fact. The copyright and
neighbouring rights in the information society bill (DADVSI) (n=B01206)
which the French government will try to force through in the coming
weeks by using an emergency procedure, actually legitimates the
technical devices installed by CD and DVD editors and producers to
control their use. And above all, the bill plans criminal penalty
against people who would dare to remove those.

[la suite]

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