On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:31:18 +0100 ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/3/17 Gilles Chehade <gil...@openbsd.org>: > > > http://www.poolp.org/~gilles/ > > So... what's the black-out stuff all about? > > I'm not up to date, it appears, and I don't understand French, and > what I saw in the HTML source does not exist in the English Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI, and a translated version of the > French page is a bit too choppy for me to make much sense of it: > http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHADOPI&sl=fr&tl=en > (And please don't take this the wrong way, but your protest might be > more effective if you told people what you're protesting.)
I think it is completely off-topic, but you may find more information about this at <http://www.laquadrature.net/en>. In short, the French government want to install a new law to fight illegal downloading/sharing of files protected by copyrights. They want to create a new governmental agency (called HADOPI), wich would take orders directly from the movies/discs majors for the "three steps response", like in New Zealand. The HADOPI would also filter our Internet access. The European Parliament already refused this concept twice but, as you might already know, we have a president that seems to think he is Superman, and that he is just wright in everything he does. This law is discussed this days at the French National Assembly, and we hope they listen to us. I hope I gave you enough keyword to allow to search the Web and see for yourself. Best regards, Maxime > regards, > --ropers > -- Maxime DERCHE GnuPG public key ID : 0x9A85C4C0 (fingerprint : 0FDC 16AF 5A5B 1908 786C 2B85 2D3C C83E 9A85 C4C0) http://www.mouet-mouet.net/maxime/blog/index.php
