During the night of 22nd to 23rd December 2005, while everybody is preparing for Christmas, the French Parliament will rule about the "DADVSI" law. This vote will be made with minimal discussion, as an "emergency" has been declared on this law.

This law is the French transcription of the european EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive) text, which itself comes from the american DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act).
The main goal of this law is to restrict the rights of digital content purchasers. It most notably forbids them from working around technical content protection measures.
Doing so, writing or publishing software allowing to do so, or even merely talking about ways to do so becomes an offence that can be punished with three years in jail.

VideoLAN is directly impacted, most notably for its DVD reading capability (all Linux DVD reading software has the same problem). Should this law be passed, this would seriously hinder VLC's development.

The french website eucd.info collects a large number of related articles and documentation

What angers me the most out of this RIAA stuff is that they are saying in interviews here and there that CD sales are down because of P2P and internet pirates.

I mean, GET REAL. Just open MTV and watch 10 video clips. 9 of them are plain crap. Now compare them to the music people used to hear 30, 20 or 10 years ago (and I am talking about the mainstream music). Sad isn't it? Each time their 1243th rapper makes a 2nd album and it doesn't sell, it's P2Ps fault.

Have they ever thought that people (like myself) have got tired of them and now buy music from smaller artists and independed record companies?

To the subject now, this is some French law trying to ban programs that remove copy protections of any kind. And happened to the law about free, personal backup gentlemen? I have to get 2 CDs if I want to keep one in my car? Should I not be able to keep a copy of a movie in DivX in my laptop or PPC and I am banned from creating Mp3s for my PC and car stereo?

When the patents where to be discussed in the EU parliament, the people's will prevailed. Lets see what the French will do now! 

The music cartel industry didn't get what they expected. What happened that night is that against all expectations people voted the legalisation of the download and are now asking for a "global license". Funny, isn't it !
(uploading is still not legal at the moment though)

Now the music cartel industry with the support of the french government is trying to reverse this move. What a lesson of democracy : "Hey dudes, you didn't vote what we expected, now we need to remove this law and vote again". About 50 well known artists invaded the medias to complain about the "end of the artistic creation". They say the french parliament is trying to "kill the music industry".

In the meantime though, tens of hundreds of not-that-known artists are supporting the "global license" law, and ask for the legalization of the upload too, but since they're not linked to the 4 majors, their voice doesn't really matter to the french ministry of culture.

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