France To Brand Downloading Legal?

is grateful to Florian Leverve of QMIPRI for tipping him off close this story. The International Herald Tribune reports that the French National Assembly sat belatedly into final nighttime discussing whether to legalise downloading for private use.

Oooh human face - it's a French neb (left)

The Socialist Party attached amendments to the copyright neb that is currently going through the French Parliament that would permit unlimited downloads for private purpose past times individuals in ane lawsuit they pick out paid a one-off fee.

Members of the Socialist Party pick out said:

We are trying to convey the police line upward to appointment amongst reality..It is incorrect to describe
the 8 meg French people who pick out downloaded music from the Internet as
delinquents

and

We are exclusively leading inwards a direction that is inevitable for the police line everywhere…You
will consider other European nations adopting such laws inwards the futurity because they
just brand sense.

Some pick out condemned the amendments though, pointing out that the moves would severely bound the revenue that artists could obtain from P2P activities. The French cinema manufacture is expected to endure particularly, since it relies on pay-per-view telly stations for much of its funding. If the films were legally downloadable from the internet, at that spot would endure no incentive to pay to persuasion them.

reckons that this proposal makes footling feel conceptually unless at that spot are moves to legalise uploading also (not that he’s recommending that this should endure done). If downloading is legalised but uploading isn’t, together with then French Republic would endure recognising a legitimate marketplace for films to download, but together with then proverb that it would endure illegal for anyone to run across the needs of that marketplace past times uploading the films create for downloading.