ok i have to make an enormous back track on that french copyright law i blogged about a few posts back.
The original article i read stated that france was enacting new laws forcing companies like Apple to open up their DRM to competitors. Sounds great. Unfortunately, that article didn’t include all the other shit they’ve pulled.
according to this:
Its now illegal in france to write P2P software, even for non-copyright infringing use, like say, the system Warner Brothers is creating with bittorrent.
Fines for downloading stuff illegally were to be set at a maximum of €75, thats been scrapped by this law, bringing them up to max of €500,000 and 5 years in jail.
Worse still, the original interoperability clause to force companies like apple to open up has now been scrapped.
As they rightly point out in that post, this law is the harshest anti-piracy law ever passed anywhere in the world.