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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/correcting-france-mistake.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/correcting-france-mistake.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55f65be --- /dev/null +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/correcting-france-mistake.html @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --> +<title>Correcting My Mistake about French Law - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/correcting-france-mistake.translist" --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<h2>Correcting My Mistake about French Law</h2> + +<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard +Stallman</strong></a></p> + +<p>For several years I've said in my speeches that it was a crime in +France, punishable by imprisonment, to have a copy of the free +software that can decrypt the video on a DVD. That encryption is an +example of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), the malicious +features <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/">designed to restrict +users</a>.</p> + +<p>That is what Sarkozy's DADVSI law said when it was adopted, but I +recently learned that the Conseil d'Etat introduced some +exceptions. In fact, free software to decrypt and play DVDs is +legally distributed in France—unlike the US, where it was censored +by the infamous 1998 law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.</p> + +<p>However, it's not clear whether this will apply to other DRM schemes. +There is a danger that the complex conditions will specifically +prohibit free software for playing Bluray disks and allow only +proprietary software. Thus, it is not a crime in France to possess +the free software that can play a DVD, but it is yet to be decided +whether it is a crime to possess a free program to play a Bluray disk.</p> + +<p>It is certainly not <em>wrong</em> to have a copy of such a program. +The software that's wrong is nonfree software; the only ethical +program to play a video, or do anything else, is a free program. The +wrong here is in the law itself. However, as long as it exists, if +you are a dissident in France you should keep such programs hidden.</p> + +<p>When I first got a drive that handles DVDs, the reason I decided not +to install free DVD-playing software was because of this French law. +I go to France from time to time, and I was concerned there might be +some who would wish to have me imprisoned for this so as to terrorize +other netizens. I refuse to have any nonfree software, and the only +option that left me was to have no software for this job. Thus, I +could not play encrypted DVDs at all.</p> + +<p>Knowing now that I won't be imprisoned for bringing libdvdcss into +France, I could consider having a copy, which would give me the option +of playing DVDs that have DRM.</p> + +<p>However, I think I won't do it. I have got used to avoiding encrypted +DVDs, and this has the bonus of giving Hollywood no money with which to +lobby for nasty laws like SOPA. Why change?</p> + +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to +<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. +There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> +the FSF. 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