<<http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html>>
Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament. <<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/02/france_about_to_get_.html>> Copyfighters in France have published a detailed alert in French; what follows is a loose, machine-assisted translation (substantive corrections gladly sought): * A prohibition on all software that permits transmission [disposition is unclear without greater context] of copyrighted material that does not integrate both a watermark and DRM * A prohibition on marketing or such software * These prohibitions include legal sanctions< * DRM mandates for digital radio transmission * A universal wiretapping system for private communication [This is defined elsewhere as a system to check for, say, music files attached to email messages, and not one that would violate the "secret of private correspondence".] * Creation of a universal filering system for all ISPs ------ "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." --Edmund Burke _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
