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Comment Re:Misleading article (Score 2, Interesting) 325

I can add to this that the DADSVI is making very angry open source supporters, most of little artists, consumers association, ect.. out here in France, as it's would make DRM protections impossible to circumvent without the risk of an infringment of about 750 Euros (users of VLC or any media players using DevCSS would have some serious problems...).
But it also aim to permit interoperability (and you see here the problem : how can we make DRMised contents to be interoperable, as DRMs are made to stop interoperability ? )
At first vote in december, an amendment was passed to permit P2P use but the government had forced the parliement to discuss it again, and now this part of the law is totaly 6 feets under... But now, use of P2P to download copyrighted music/films/whatever could cost you 38 euros.
Last but not least, copy exceptions for research and teaching wouldn't be totally permitted...

Added to this the fact that the minister Donnedieu de Vabre (nicknamed "launderer minister", "the sinister of inculture" or "Ptipimousse") want this law to pass without been discussed correctly and tried to make a propaganda site (lestelechargements.com, using Dotclear but at a cost of... 180000 euros, and no real possibility to comment or discuss !), and you could understand why some of us are very angry here...

(sorry for the possible fault, but I'm french and mad about all of this, so it doesn't help ^^)

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