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The French Parliament has passed what the anti-Digital Rights Management (DRM) group EUCD.INFO calls "the worst copyright law in Europe." Popularly known as DADVSI (Loi sur le Droit d'Auteur et des Droits Voisins dans la Société de l'Information, or Law on Author's Rights and Related Rights in the Information Society), the bill now goes to President Jacques Chirac to be signed into law. However, opponents of the bill hope that alleged unconstitutional maneuvering by the government and possibly unconstitutional aspects of the law itself can still be used to prevent at least some aspects of DADVSI from coming into effect.
If the law is fair and necessary, why do they have to use underhand methods to get it passed?
Surely it should bear the most rigorous scrutiny if it's a good law?
The methods used show for real what is going on. If then the law makers effectively cheated to get the law passed, how then can expect people to respect and obey it?
Another case of law being passed to protect corporations against people and not, as it should be, the other way around.
After reading Florian Müller's "No Lobbyists As Such: The War over European Software Patents", some of those tactics to get the law passed seem all too familiar...
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If the law is fair and necessary, why do they have to use underhand methods to get it passed? Surely it should bear the most rigorous scrutiny if it's a good law?
The methods used show for real what is going on. If then the law makers effectively cheated to get the law passed, how then can expect people to respect and obey it?
Another case of law being passed to protect corporations against people and not, as it should be, the other way around.