Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth - Italian proverb
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Filesharing becomes the latest French hobby
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT is facing a problem with filesharers after its hamfisted attempt to appease the entertainment industries backfired.
Ever ready to surrender to a powerful authority, the French handed over a huge chunk of its legal system to the big media industries and brought in all the laws that the music and movie mongols wanted to prop up their dying business models.
The only problem is that, rather than making peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing disappear it has made it all the more interesting for French teens to get around. Nothing makes anything cooler than making something that harms no one illegal.
Yep, P2P so-called 'piracy' is fast becoming the reefer and street racing event for teens of the 21st century.
According to The Times, studies suggest that 42 per cent of software programs are copied illegally in France, compared with 26 per cent in Britain and 27 per cent in Germany. In the southwest of France, the 'piracy' rate was 49 per cent.
Cerise Club, a French Internet company, said that illegal file sharing is a "national sport" and this is despite the fact that French copyright legislation is among the most repressive in the world.
"The French take a sly pleasure in getting round all the systems put in place, and it's very difficult to persuade them to do otherwise," a spokesman told the Times. µ
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At least we still have one European country,that hasn't rolled over to the eurocrats & their subservience to that capitalist pigs.
Which is more than one can say about the UK,with it's shirt-lifting political daisy-chain.
I 'always' knew the French would remember their history...bring on the guillotine...let the 'bigheaded' politicians heads roll!
You want a religion to gain immediate popularity? Ban it, and it'll have millions of new adherents overnight.
On the flip side of the coin, that's why Christians never try to force laws that force people to respect Christianity, because we know it'll cause the opposite effect.
Good on ya Frenchies. Keep up the good work.
Yes, yes, yes,... And 96% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Text book streisand effect!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Remember proibitionism?
Same concept!
Given both our wonderful President's tendency to cosy up to big media (and without much discernment, cf Tom Cruise hoopla at the beginning of Sarko's reign), and the almost automatic way the French people in general actively hate their Police and government.
It is almost as if the government of my country made decisions while counting on the people to do the contrary.