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 [Joi.ito.com] Joi Ito's Web: French Attempt to Legalize File Sharing: The French National Assembly stunned the world in December when it voted to legalize P2P file-sharing through a model in which Internet users could opt to pay a small fee each month for unlimited downloads. The money from the fee would go to artists'royalties, The government withdrew the original bill, thus stopping the vote making its way through the legislative process, and amended it slightly to lighten fines for illegal downloading and to allow people to make private copies of DVDs and CDs.

 [Technology.guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | File sharing? It's ...: When the US Supreme Court ruled last year that two popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks had knowingly facilitated mass copyright infringement, digital rights advocacy groups predicted the stifling of innovation, while Hollywood moguls cheered the decision as a victory for artists and the fatal blow to piracy.

 [Indicare.org] INDICARE : Copyright law as an enigma for laypersons and the need ...: But then, US movies are often released in the US long before they come to theatres in Europe (i.e., the drama "House of Sand and Fog", which was released in the US on December 26, 2003, came to theatres in Germany on February 17, 2005 - more than a year later. At the time the movie was still showing in German theatres the DVD was already available in the US, where it was released March 30, 2005 (cf.

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