xor a écrit :
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: devl-boun...@freenetproject.org 
>> [mailto:devl-boun...@freenetproject.org] On Behalf Of Julien Cornuwel
>> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:14 PM
>> To: Discussion of development issues
>> Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Bye folks
>>
>> Ed Tomlinson a écrit :
>>> On December 27, 2008, Julien Cornuwel wrote:
>>>> I'm sorry to tell you that for some legal reasons (I live 
>> in France), 
>>>> I have to stop working on Freenet. I've learned a lot with 
>> you guys 
>>>> and I'm sad to have to say goodbye, but that's how it is when you 
>>>> live in a so-called democracy...
>>> Julien,
>>>
>>> IF you can be more specific it probably would be of 
>> interest to all of 
>>> us on this list.
>> Well, it isn't new stuff but France has a copyright law 
>> (DADVSI) which is vague enough to be used against people who 
>> work on P2P softwares.
>>
>> In any case, it is the judge's job to tell if you are guilty 
>> or not, and I might won such a trial. But the judgement can 
>> be very long (up to several years) and, in the meantime, they 
>> have the right to seize your computers and every servers you 
>> rent in France, even if they are not related to the project.
>>
>> I didn't care about that until very recently but my situation 
>> is changing and I can't take that risk anymore : servers I 
>> rent are soon to be my only revenue stream.
>>
>> More information about DADVSI (in english) :
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DADVSI
> 
> This sucks =(

Fully agreed.

> PS: Please give the private key of the WoT seed identity to the project
> leaders. We will create a new one before release anyway but for now it would
> be nice to have to keypair.

Done. The same keypair is used to hold the freesite and the seed identity.

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