The French parliament surprisingly rejected, with the votes of the socialists, the so-called anti-piracy law, strongly desired by Sarkozy. The law provided for a monitoring body, the Hadopi, which was to identify users who share files protected by copyright through the internet and take action against them. The first notice was to be an email warning, the second a letter and a third, if you do not stop downloading illegally, suspending access to the Internet up to a year, with the obligation to continue paying for the connection.
The French government has, however, intention to resubmit the law within the year.
The French Socialists consider it wrong and dangerous, and some opposition to the text seems to be present even within the coalition that supports the President. The law, if passed, may also conflict with the provisions of the European Parliament, which has recently established internet access as an untouchable fundamental freedom of citizens.
In addition, the law would give to an administrative body the power to spy on the use that people make of their connection, with an obvious violation of privacy. The truth is that governments, the record companies and major motion picture should put their soul at peace and understand that it is impossible to stop the exchange of information on the web. The web exist to share information, and this includes music and videos. The very concept of copyright must be profoundly revised, because now we are no longer in the 70's, when a disc and a film reel could be copied only by professional tools. Now anyone can copy anything with ease and with the increase of the speed of the net and the computer skills of people will be more and more easy to copy and share any kind of content. The copyright could be paid for by advertising or by a moderate tax on connections and digital products, but we can not continue to believe that "piracy" can be stopped. People online do not perceive any difference between listening to a song on the radio or download it from the web. Nor they perceive the difference between watching a film on television and download it. And that is because there is no substantial difference. And the user downloading of a file to view or hear it and then in 90% of cases delete it cannot be assimilated to the "pirates" who copy a movie or a cd and sell them illegaly. If a file is copied and shared on a non-profit network what is the difference with respect to record a movie on TV or a song on the radio, activities impossible to monitor ? There is no difference.
The basis of the prohibitive fury of the music and movie corporations is the illusion that the decline in sales in recent years stems from illegal downloading, which till now still involves a very small part of the general population. The truth is that people continue to buy and give cd and dvd if they believe that the contents are interesting. When they do not it's because they consider them to be of little value, the result of exasperate marketing of the majors, that produce disposable music and movies.
Trying to stop downloads on the Internet is like thinking you can stop the wind. It's an inevitable consequence of the digitization of information and trying to eliminate it would lead firstly to the end of individual privacy, and secondly, to the systematic persecution of a large number of citizens who do not feel had done anything different from watching television or listening to the radio.
In Italy, meanwhile, it's said that the Minister of Culture Sandro Bondi intended to introduce in our country too the law just rejected in France. In this regard, member of Parliament Roberto Cassinelli, also of the PDL, but contrary to any proposals to limit the freedom of the web, has promoted a Parliamentary question about that.
Ethical trading, the association that asks for the legalization of sharing with collective licenses.
In Italy, meanwhile, it's said that the Minister of Culture Sandro Bondi intended to introduce in our country too the law just rejected in France. In this regard, member of Parliament Roberto Cassinelli, also of the PDL, but contrary to any proposals to limit the freedom of the web, has promoted a Parliamentary question about that.
Ethical trading, the association that asks for the legalization of sharing with collective licenses.
How the anti-piracy law in Sweden is killing the web, by Zeus News
Amendment D'Alia, which provides for the censorship on the web, by Zeus News
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