This is just to give you a link to the same news on French parliment, but in English: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=3D10000085&sid=3DavOoTq8aXkU8&refe= r =3Deurope > -----Original Message----- > From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 > [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Silvio Macedo > Sent: 22 December 2005 13:26 > To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [opendtv] FW: [Multimedia] Droit d'auteur: les=20 > d=E9put=E9s fran=E7ais l=E9galisent les =E9changes de fichiers >=20 >=20 > Two very different realities.=3D20 > In my opinion, both very silly: >=20 > The naive French law makers: > > Luis Gustavo Martins wrote: > > Subject: [Multimedia] Droit d'auteur: les d=3DE9put=3DE9s fran=3DE7ais=3D20 > > l=3DE9galisent les =3DE9changes de fichiers > > In France, it is now LEGAL to download ANY SONG or > > MOVIE through P2P networks as long as it is for a > > non-profit purpose (ie: sitting on your couch=3D20 > > enjoying a beer).=3D20 > > Thanks French deputies, you rock.=3D20 > > [Info too fresh, no translation yet. This article will > > be replaced by an English version as soon as it is translated.] > > http://www.kretz.biz/p2p.htm=3D20 >=20 > The simply plain ignorant US law makers: > ... > The Digital Transition Content Security Act would embed anticopying > technology into the next generation of digital video products. If it > makes its way from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office and becomes law, > the measure will outlaw the manufacture or sale of electronic devices > that convert analog video signals into digital video signals, > effective one year from its enactment. PC-based tuners and digital > video recorders are listed among the devices. [can you actually > believe this one?!?] > ... > http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/47939.html >=20 > =3D20 > Silvio >=20 > =20 > =20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: >=20 > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration=20 > settings at FreeLists.org=20 >=20 > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with=20 > the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.