Universal have the support of the record industry's "union" orgs, of BSA, and of SACEM, the official French musical royalties collection agency (influential, lotsa money).
The amendment seems to have got through the special commission (Sirinelli Commission) and will be considered 7th December in a plenary session of the High Council for Artistic and Literary Property. Maybe it can be stopped there.
See this page in English for information and links.
Go to this page (in French) to sign a petition against the amendment.
Universal, Microsoft, Sony, would love to get in the thin end of the wedge, even in one country. The danger to open-source software (all of it, everywhere) is obvious. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
Just what I was hoping for.
I hope that friends of open source in France will jump all over this. Pogo: We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Many small associations, couldn't work if they didn't have the free open source things... This the exact opposite of the Indian move...! I just hope it's a last stand from SACEM and other big music producers in the free radio-TV-Music war ! "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
Micro$oft would be so pleased... When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
I have already predicted that geeks will take the internet underground in the near future. These kinds of law just make that possibility all the more likely. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
