2009/4/2 [email protected] <[email protected]> > > I was trying to understand this topic as well. Obviously pro-audio is not in > breach of any copyright unless some upstream developer has stolen code (again > very unlikely).. However I am completely against government monitoring and am > a > strong supporter (including some financial support) of the "No Clean Feed" > campaign here in Australia.
Hello Allan. This mail from tuxfamily was intended as an April fool's joke, I think ;-) The joke was surely easier to tell by those of us in France who have been following the discussions about this project: it is hard to believe that any provider involved in FOSS would stand up in favour of a regulation which intends to deprive citizens of their Internet access, on the basis of extremely random evidence (IP adresses collected by a private authority). > I was of the understanding that the HADOPI laws were > squashed by the EU, Not exactly: the EU has strongly stated that being able to access the Internet should be a fundamental right; though, this does not create any legal constraint which a governenment has to abide by. (This is my understanding, anyway, and IANAL). The french rulers seem determined to scorn the EU's views on the matter, and promote this law. Whether it can then be sanely applied is a whole other story ... Cheers.
