Re: frenet-fr.info is looking for a non-french owner

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:13:21PM +0100, Julien Cornuwel wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> http://www.freenet-fr.info is a french site that gives a lot of 
> documentation an help about Freenet.
> 
> As you maybe know, French government is changing the copyright laws in a 
> quite drastic way :
> - DRMs are now protected by the law.

This is the case in the US and across the EU. It is not really a big
deal.

> - Avoiding them or giving a way to avoid them leads to 3 years of prison 
> and 300,000?.
> - P2P softwares could be considerated as forbidden by a conservative 
> judge because they permit the copy of copyrighted materials.

The problem is not that DRM is protected. It is that it is MANDATORY.
This may very well prohibit Freenet - but it could also prohibit Apache!
> 
> Because of that, I'm looking for someone that doesn't live in France and 
> who would accept to become the official owner of the site. Of course, 
> I'd keep working on it and he would have nothing to do about it.
> 
> Maybe Ian could accept to own freenet-fr.info as he already owns 
> freenetproject.org ?
> Anyway, I need help about that, I don't that site to disapear because 
> the majors achieved the corruption of a few law-bastards (I don't know 
> if it is correct english, but it is my feeling...).
> 
> Regards
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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