On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:13:21PM +0100, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > Hi there, > > http://www.freenet-fr.info is a french site that gives a lot of > documentation an help about Freenet. > > As you maybe know, French government is changing the copyright laws in a > quite drastic way : > - DRMs are now protected by the law.
This is the case in the US and across the EU. It is not really a big deal. > - Avoiding them or giving a way to avoid them leads to 3 years of prison > and 300,000?. > - P2P softwares could be considerated as forbidden by a conservative > judge because they permit the copy of copyrighted materials. The problem is not that DRM is protected. It is that it is MANDATORY. This may very well prohibit Freenet - but it could also prohibit Apache! > > Because of that, I'm looking for someone that doesn't live in France and > who would accept to become the official owner of the site. Of course, > I'd keep working on it and he would have nothing to do about it. > > Maybe Ian could accept to own freenet-fr.info as he already owns > freenetproject.org ? > Anyway, I need help about that, I don't that site to disapear because > the majors achieved the corruption of a few law-bastards (I don't know > if it is correct english, but it is my feeling...). > > Regards -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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