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Re: Surprise - French lawmakers reject Internet piracy bill
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:01:49 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent () guerby net> Date: April 9, 2009 4:14:18 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: Re: [IP] Surprise - French lawmakers reject Internet piracy bill
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:16 -0400, David Farber wrote:
French lawmakers reject Internet piracy bill In surprise move, French lawmakers reject bill punishing illegal downloading * Scott Sayare, Associated Press Writer * Thursday April 9, 2009, 9:23 am EDThttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/French-lawmakers-reject- apf-14890742.html[...] Music labels, film distributors and artists -- who have seen CD and DVD sales in France plummet 60 percent in the past six years -- hailed the bill as a decisive step toward eliminating online piracy and an example to other governments.
This is government propaganda, Catherine Deneuve and Victoria Abril together with other artists signed a petition against this law: http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/50209-liberation-deneuvre-april-hadopi-critiques.htm 2008 had the highest number of cinema ticket ever sold in a year in France: http://www.unifrance.org/actualites/5278/2008-annee-record-pour-le-cinema-francais-a-l-international Global music sales including concerts are growing 4% a year and video games sales were up 28% in 2008: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_Hadopi Sincerely, Laurent http://guerby.org/blog ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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