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NEED YOUR HELP! "French touch" artists in danger because of a DRM law in France !

GregBaumont	Date: December 16, 2005 @ 2:01 PM France may soon enact the worst copyright law in Europe, sneaking it through in a legislative session scheduled for December 20. Europe’s equivalent to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial directive called the EUCD. Each EU state is responsible for implementing the minimum set of EUCD restrictions (which are far from minimal!) but each state can exceed the minimum, and the entertainment lobby pushes hard to see to it that they do. They’ve run amok in France, subverting the lawmaking process with a farcical wish-list of penalties, mandates and software bans. Copyfighters in France have published a detailed alert in French; what follows is a loose, machine-assisted translation (substantive corrections gladly sought): * A prohibition on all software that permits transmission [disposition is unclear without greater context] of copyrighted material that does not integrate both a watermark and DRM * A prohibition on marketing or advertising such software (or simply to use it) * These prohibitions include legal sanctions * DRM mandates for digital radio transmission (ie: podcast using mp3, websites that promote unsigned artists by providing mp3 tunes from them,...) * A universal wiretapping system for private communication [This is defined elsewhere as a system to check for, say, music files attached to email messages, and not one that would violate the “secret of private correspondence”.] * Creation of a universal filering system for all ISPs Today this happens in France, tomorrow it will happen in your country. You can help us by sending an pre-filled open letter to the President and Prime Minister of the French Republic. It will take you less than 1 minute: * the prefilled letter is here: http://eucd.info/index.php?2005/12/15/218-sending-an-open-letter-to-the-president-and-prime-minister-of-the-french-republic select and copy the letter's text (Ctrl-C) * go the the Prime Minister's website http://www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/acteurs/premier_ministre/ecrire if you don't read french, no problems: * Nom : put your name in this field (mandatory) * Prénom : put your firstname here (mandatory) * Titre de votre message: "pétition contre le projet de loi DADVSI" (mandatory) * Objet de votre message: choose "Relayer une pétition" in the combo box (the last but one choice) (mandatory) * Ecrivez votre message : put here the pre-filled letter (Ctrl-V) (mandatory) Votre adresse électronique : put your email adress here (not mandatory) Adresse : your adress (not mandatory) * Code postal : your postal code (if it's doesn't validate, simply put 75000) (mandatory) Ville : your city (not mandatory) Pays : your country (not mandatory) then simply click on the button "Envoyer le message" , and voilà ! Thank you very much for your help ! Tell about it to your friends ! Greg.
BlackMage	Date: December 18, 2005 @ 1:38 PM Copyright struck nicely in Finland too. The government pretty much just flipped the bird when about tens of thousands people wrote to their congressmen. They won't listen. They don't care.
Alecs	Date: December 27, 2005 @ 9:06 AM Lunitari's right...unfortunately
TameasDust	Date: January 3, 2006 @ 1:47 AM They just take your name and put you on the investigation list ... those who complain get greased
luapwr	Date: January 7, 2006 @ 7:23 PM For once the French are getting it right.. Viva La France ! ! !
plungerboy	Date: September 9, 2006 @ 7:59 AM Im gonna hide somewhere now.

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