French ‘Loi Hadopi’ anti-filesharing law passed

[YGG-]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

HADOPI WAS REJECTED THIS MORNING BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY !!!!!!

Socialist Député Christian Paul commented : "Hallelujah ! It's a parlementary miracle !"

Adopted this morning by the Senate, the text has just been REJECTED by the National Assembly, with 21 votes against, 15 votes in favour, after nearly 2 hours of discussion.


HALLELUJAH !!!!!

http://www.ecrans.fr/L-Assemblee-Nat...e-le,6910.html

I don't remember which author said "le pire n'est pas toujours sûr"! (the worse isn't always certain)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by YGG-

I don't remember which author said "le pire n'est pas toujours sûr"! (the worse isn't always certain)

[BlackVoid]

Another battle won against corporate fascism.

[phenomshel]

That's great!!

[Moejoe]

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Excellent stuff

[Gaurnim]

Oh this is such a great news and such a ridiculous result for the government.
The law will come back in 2 weeks, but the situation will not be the same, as the urgency declared by the government will no longer apply and the correct democratic procedure might be followed.

[RickyMaveety]

Just read the good news on my newsfeed.

So happy to hear it!!!!

[FizzyWater]

Good to hear, Zelda! Any kind of far-reaching law like that really deserves scrutiny in the light-of-day. There has to be a way to protect authors' and publishers' rights without trampling those of consumers.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Good to hear, Zelda! Any kind of far-reaching law like that really deserves scrutiny in the light-of-day. There has to be a way to protect authors' and publishers' rights without trampling those of consumers.

yes, exactly !!!!

[Abelturd]

Check out the story on TorrentFreak how the head of web innovation for French TV network TF1 got fired for voicing his views on the HADOPI law.
France is giving us tremendous lessons on freedom of speech and democracy here.

Here:

http://torrentfreak.com/tv-exec-fired-for-opposing-anti-piracy-law-090507/

[Godzil]

Yep, this is really a shame

[zerospinboson]

Hadopi adopted (french).

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by zerospinboson

Hadopi adopted (french).

Goddamn it! This is like being on a roundabout. And yes, it has passed on the re-vote.

(In English) http://torrentfreak.com/france-passe...cy-law-090512/

HADOPI (passed) with 296 votes in favor and 233 against.

[zerospinboson]

This really is neat:
scroll to:

An element of Hadopi which hasn’t received much or enough attention as yet, is a section which specifies steps that can be taken by computer users to ensure that they will not be found liable under the new regime. The following is a rough translation of the relevant sections, taken from the text of the law in its current state, as found here. Bear with me, it is torturous, some explanatory notes are added in bold
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Mmmh. So what the law intends is to set up a meeting between security software vendors, antipiracy organizations and ISPs to decide what software you need to install on your machine, so that they can be sure that you behave yourself. If you don’t fancy installing their device, then you’ll just have to swallow any liability consequent to someone else using your machine or accessing your connection.

If you agree to install a "security software program" of their approval on your PC that monitors your every move on said PC/connection, you are exempt from prosecution. (except, likely, if you misbehave.) Aside from that fact that "Free" "security" software will likely not be approved of by the "council" (gee, corporatism?), this does smack of a very, very strange requirement to vote through.
(Original Wordpress article here)

Apart from finding the last paragraph a bit puzzling – the list of exceptions exempts from all liability, the coda refers only to criminal liability – and the language atrocious, it’s obvious the whole framework is mad and unacceptable. Imposing such strict liability unless users agree to install spyware, almost certainly connected to remote databases, is intrusive as well as dangerous.

How can this not amount to a wholesale surveillance of online activity? Who will have access to the data collected and transmitted by these ’security systems’ (sic), and how will that access be managed? Will the security systems be transparent (free software/open source), or proprietary black-box money-makers, prone later to surrender to a veritable orgy of exploits? If proprietary, how will it be interoperable with free operating systems such as GNU Linux?

‘Certification’ (labellisation) is a phrase commonly heard in recent weeks, and the government wants to ‘certify’ legal content providers (Article. L. 331-21-1), and ultimately looks forward to a set of digital fingerprints corresponding to the works in their repertoires. Presumably the approved ’security systems’ are intended to be able to interact with a database of such objects.

Talk about bold.