French Downloaders Take to the Streets
Around 300 people demonstrated in Paris yesterday afternoon against a new Internet copyright bill being debated by the French Senate, police said. The demonstrators laid a wreath "in memory of private copying and free software in France." The new legislation would outlaw the downloading of commercial files via peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks.More here.
Demonstrators in the capital held up signs saying "Artists need P2P" and attacking digital rights management technology, which blocks music and film files so that they cannot freely be transferred over the web.
Yet Apple, which runs the iTunes music download site, has attacked the bill for the opposite reason, claiming it prevents websites that sell music downloads legally from blocking the files so that they can only be played on certain types of equipment.
posted by Fergie @ 5/08/2006 10:13:00 AM
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