To be fair this law was introduced last year, and that was the end of the legislative process, and everybody thought it was a done deal. That's why it didn't attract that much attention.Green Lemon wrote:I didn't here a lot about it in Paris either; I think people view it as something doomed to failure anyway...
This is wrong. Both the majority and the opposition are divided about that law (at least in the assembly). The reasons for opposing it is rarely that "it is not going far enough" though.peeddrroo wrote:
what i like about french opposition, is that they voted against this law because "it was not going far enough".
so they prefer to have a status quo and let people donwload stuff for free for the sake of being "the opposition".
i'm sure if the law proposed had been harder, they would have voted against it anyway...
i personnally think this is not good news. this law was maybe not the best, but at least it was a start.
As a rule of thumb a bad law is worse than no law. But don't worry, the text will eventually pass (probably before the summer). However there will be more legal battles around this.