June 27, 2006 (IDG News Service) -
http://computerworld.com/
The Free Software advocate Richard Stallman invite young French people to protest against the draft law on copyright is being discussed in parliament this Friday.
This law threatens their freedom to watch DVDs (CDs with movies, music and other information) using free software and is designed to make French citizens to surrender to the will of media companies, he said, opening the conference Paris Capitale du Libre ", on Monday night.
When asked what could stop the law, Stallman said, "Young Miles French in the street. "
These young people, however, have little time to organize their protests, since Friday is the last day parliamentary session before the long summer vacation. Both houses of the French parliament will vote on the law that day: The Senate in the morning, the National Assembly in the afternoon. The law, officially called "Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society", is also known by its initials in French, DADVSI.
Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, Inc., won over his audience in Paris to address them in French.
"I can tell the software free in three words: "liberté, égalité and fraternité," he said. Freedom, because free software gives everyone 4 freedoms that do not have with proprietary software, Equality, because it gives everyone the same freedoms, and brotherhood, because they all belong to the same community of interests, he added.
other hand, also said the slogan of (some) users of open source Linux operating system could be "gain, reliability and efficiency."
Faced with a choice between reliability and freedom, Stallman said that he would choose freedom, because free software, one of the freedoms that a user has the freedom to fix errors source code to make it more reliable.
"Those who do not recognize freedom are on track to lose," he added. "What we see here with this Act DADVSI."
"It will be illegal to watch DVDs using free software," he said, because of the provisions of the law about the software that implements DRM (digital rights management, digital rights management).
Stallman mocked those who rely on the requirements that companies using DRM technology provide the information necessary for others to develop interoperable DRM systems.
"Many people say that DRM, wives (such as those used by the police) digital are acceptable always operating at full steam. 'We can go everywhere in handcuffs. All computers use the same wives' (say those people). It is clear that this is not the solution. "
The law allows citizens to ask a court or tribunal that ordered him to companies that can provide information about their DRM systems, but does not say whether they should do so under a no confidentiality agreement, ANC, he said. "If they are allowed to provide such information at an ANC, then it is not possible to develop free software using the information," he added, given that the ANC would prohibit the release of source code.
"The Just because you do not have an application for watching DVDs could pose a major obstacle to the progress of GNU / Linux. If they are forbidden to provide that application, people who do not appreciate freedom itself, not want to use GNU / Linux for that reason, "he said.
" To defend freedom, you have to appreciate it. To appreciate it, you have to recognize it. But in our community, many people have not learned to recognize freedom. In the open source world is not about freedom. So I talk about it whenever I can, "he concluded Stallman.
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