{"id":4050,"date":"2005-12-23T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/legal-p2p-file-sharing-in-france.html"},"modified":"2005-12-23T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T09:58:38","slug":"legal-p2p-file-sharing-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/legal-p2p-file-sharing-in-france.html","title":{"rendered":"Legal p2p File Sharing in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is France<\/country-region \/> becoming the most tech savvy country of the west? Perhaps not but France<\/place \/><\/country-region \/>\u2019s lower house has agreed to legalize peer-to-peer file sharing. In a surprise decision, just 2 out of 58 votes decided the outcome.<\/p>\n

The measure, introduced as two amendments to a government bill designed to toughen digital copyright protection, would deem that downloading copyrighted files is legal as long as it is for private use only and the downloader pays a general fee for royalty payments, the AFP report said.<\/p>\n

The report said such a fee could, for instance, be added on to the monthly subscription charge for broadband Internet access at the cost of a few euros.<\/p>\n

This is pretty progressive and would allow everyone to share files and just kick back a bunch of money that can be shared by the artists. In theory, one can surmise the more of an artist\u2019s songs are downloaded, the more of the fund you receive.<\/p>\n

This is pretty interesting and opens up all sorts of worm cans. For example does Microsoft get a cut of every illegal MS Office file flowing through he network. How about porn movies. Is the French government going to cut checks to porn studios?<\/p>\n

I get the feeling we won\u2019t get to see this play out as government has called for a second vote and will likely pressure the National Assembly to rethink their stance.<\/p>\n

<\/font>Full story<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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