P2P. Ç’ést pas la France

France wants to throw anyone who downloads music, software, or any other product that is subject to copyrights from a P2P network, without paying rights to the author, in prison.  The dream of the SGAE is becoming a reality on French ground.
I can imagine hundreds of Gendarmerie vans, with their lights flashing at full speed, pulling thousands of adolescents from their houses and taking them to jail. How many millions of them can French jails hold?  Will we, the parents, have direct responsibility over our children and have to pay or go to jail for what they do with their musical tastes?
The truth is, it doesn’t make any sense, and as always, the attempts to stem the tide will not work.  From the beginning they have to get the EU, completely contrary at the moment, to approve it, or, like what happened in inverse in years past, thousands of French adolescents will head to the borders, Belgium, Spain…and they will come with their laptops to download their music here and there.
New business models will be invented that exploit these types of laws.  No, sirs, this is not the way…

Translation by babelic.com

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.