Remember the French the next time you think of Apple.

the iTunes/French Law case is not the worse

this same law forbids Open Source programs, all P2P programs, basically the law forbids the use of internet in france

there are some guys who made artwork with terrorist faces like "this guy uses VLC to read videos", "this pirate doesn't use windows media player", "this man has a website"

all here in french : http://m-bt.org/pic/avatars/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by eriol

Hello_Kitty, is France actually that stricts implying the rules to forbid downloading MP3? does that mean most of GFF users in France risk themselves downloading stuff from that ftp server? Well I heard from my dutch friend that people who uses p2p actually could be tracked by police and they must pay certain fee. totally absurd I would say.

The law is absurd : tools that allow you to download copyrighted content are forbidden, you can have a 350'000 € fee if you are a P2P programmer, or even if you tell someone you can use eHorse or BitRiver to download stuff, etc...

but the law also says "if the tools are for collaborative work, or exchanging files that arent copyrighted, then you can use them" :lolsign:

which doesn't mean anything, as with each program that allows you to share files, you can't stop people sharing copyrighted files

this law will be proposed to the European Commity ...

People in everycountry are subject to being traced by the police and arrested, i don't think this law will change much

There's nowhere I can't reach.