It looks obvious

When I first so this on Digg I was sure it is a joke. But obviously It Isn’t. According to the article software developer that want to give it for free have been told:

“You will be required to change your licenses.” SACEM add: “You shall stop publishing free software,” and warn they are ready “to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code” should the “VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department”[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament.

apparently this is the French solution to copyrights issues. The observation that:

“How can people possibly both pretend to defend culture and then want to ban the only software giving universal access to it? Actually, the contradiction may be only superficial: I think what they are truly after is the control of the public… Culture is just a excuse.”

is amazing. For years libertarians claims that having the government being the patron of art and culture will lead to less freedom not to more. Absurd as it may sound the first thing come to mind when reading this article was: “You brought it on yourself pal”.

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