make people aware of the danger in France concerning internet and computers individual rights

French people don’t care about their individual rights anyway.
Why would they have elected the smiler otherwise?

But i’m afraid it’s only a small part of the problem.

The bigger one: in the US, the major telecommunication companies (Bell, AT&T, AOL, etc.) are wondering: “Hold on. Users pay for their bandwidth, that’s fine. But the websites are not paying for the bandwidth used to display their content. Hey! There’s a bloody big amount of money to win there! Let’s make’em pay!”

You get the picture. The websites are forced to pay for their content to be displayed. Google, Microsoft, the New York Times, the Democrats and Fox News have more money than emerging web search engines, blogs, small political parties, opinion minorities, personal websites, small artists. Hence the former get viewed more than the latter, they have a bigger display window.

All the same for e-mail. “Hold on a sec! E-mail is still free, isn’t there a bloody amount of money to make from that?” And you find yourself having a quota of 15 free e-mails a day, unless you’re willing to pay a premium membership to your ISP.

Ultimately, this movement put to an extreme would lead the Internet as such to cease to exist, replaced by private networks, such as Bellnet, AT&Tnet, Cisconet, all with their specific pay plans, policies and rules. And not inter-connected, not free, and not neutral.

My friends, please: keep your eyes and ears wide open. It’s a bloody big deal.

:: prepares the armour for the battlefield ::

I did what I could (ie : extremely little), and I’ll do what I’ll can.

Will tell anyone I meet in the future. (Unless it’s at the bus stop, as this would make people edge away from me.)

...make peer to peer file sharing legal!

Amazing…

:)

as long as it takes.

of telling everyone … but they are used to me telling them all kinds of stuff that they don’t want to ruffle their lives with, so don’t know what they will do with it. Still, worth it. Big thank you to bruno for spreading the word!

E2(IT) (Everything Is In The Title)

Organised by Linuxfr.org, a French portal dedicated to Linux.
All the details at http://linuxfr.org/2005/12/08/20026.html

http://eucd.info/index.php?English-readers

The official information translated, at last, into English.

Art. 27:

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Article 27 :

« 1. Toute personne a le droit de prendre part librement à la vie culturelle de la communauté, de jouir des arts et de participer au progrès scientifique et aux bienfaits qui en résultent.
2. Chacun a droit à la protection des intérêts moraux et matériels découlant de toute production scientifique, littéraire ou artistique dont il est l’auteur. »

http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/frn.htm