Dec 23 2005

Will France legalize file sharing?

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For those unfamiliar with the French government, there’s a lower house called the National Assembly, just like the US Congress, the Australian House of Representatives or the British House of Commons. There’s also an upper house called the Senate, just like the US Senate, the Australian Senate or the British House of Lords.

 

Now, in France (just like everywhere else really), if you’re a member of the lower house and don’t turn up for work, they just carry on without you. That’s what happened in this case: everyone was away for Christmas and a handful of renegades who stayed behind jammed a "pro-p2p" amendment into a bill about intellectual property rights.

 

The French Culture Minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres has already asked that the debate be re-opened, so the pro-p2p part will probably be taken out before the whole thing goes before the French Senate to sign off on —– and the French Senate doesn’t have to sign off on it anyway: they can send it back to the National Assembly with a "Get Stuffed!" note stuck on the front, (or more, likely a "Va te faire foutre" note).

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