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Originally Posted by BookCat
Do you know if anyone has this with English subtitles? Sorry, I only speak English, shameful, I know!
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sorry, i don't. but here is one with french subtitles, which i've translated below :
this is not the time when she was interviewed and asked point blank "what firewall do you use" (that probably happened after this). in this particular video, Albanel (again, then Minister of Culture, pushing the Hadopi "3 strikes" law...) is explaining oh so eloquently that :
"on this question of software, of free software, of course, when you purchase software for example the Microsote (sic) Pack (that i know is not free software) with word, excel, powerpoint, there are of course firewalls, as i just said, there is security software, but on free software you can also have firewalls which, of course... for example, we, at the Ministry, have a free software which is called "Open Office" and there is effectively a security program in there which prevents the Ministry of Culture to have access of course, and the suppliers of free software supply firewalls, they even supply free firewalls. so this argument is without foundation, that is what i wanted to say."
leaving aside the fact that most of that is utter gibberish and makes little to no sense (is there even one complete sentence in there ?) she clearly states that MS Office is an example of a firewall / security software you have to pay for, and that the Ministry of Culture uses a free firewall, called "Open Office", which "prevents the Ministry from having access" (to what, we don't know). personally, i think if Open Office is preventing anyone from having access to something there's likely a problem.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Every time one of these ill-informed shills for the media conglomerates votes in another uninformed law, we just come back with ten new ways to circumvent that law. In this cat and mouse game we're a billion and more mice to their handful of cats. They can't win, no matter what they do.  |
it still seems like a travesty to me.
