Log in

View Full Version : The French Ponder Legalized File Sharing


Chris Gohlke
01-07-2006, 02:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://thomashawk.com/2005/12/french-to-legalize-file-sharing-vive.html' target='_blank'>http://thomashawk.com/2005/12/french-to-legalize-file-sharing-vive.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Apparently a French government attempt to crack down on digital piracy, including fines of up to $360,000 and up to three years in jail, has backfired big time with France's lower house voting instead to offer up ammendments that would legalize file-sharing by anyone paying a monthly royalty duty estimated at $8.50 per month."</i><br /><br />Ok, so I pay the duty for a month, download a ton of stuff and spend the next year watching it. Doesn't quite work, does it. If you have to pay the fee for every month, then this is just a government mandated subscription service (albeit, if I lived in France and that was the price, I would go for it).

Felix Torres
01-07-2006, 01:35 PM
I would think this says more about the french than about the merits of p2p as a legal means of content distribution.
Once they realize the side effects, they will be deploying harsher anti-p2p tactics than even Sony would dream of. :twisted: