On Sunday 28 December 2008 14:14, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > Ed Tomlinson a ?crit : > > 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.
It would be interesting to take it to the ECHR, yeah. OTOH if we lost it would be *bad*. > 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. Yeah, vague criminal law is evil. > > 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 My recommendation is to exercise your right as an EU citizen to move to and work in another country of the EU. :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081231/b11c3211/attachment.pgp>
