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We would like to encourage all freedom-loving French citizens to visit the page and sign the petition - not only for the sake of preserving software freedom in France, but also to send out a message to other governments and legislators to think twice before they succumb to commercial interests of powerful multinationals. The leading advocate against the 'loi DADVSI' is EUCD.INFO which also provides a way for readers to sign a petition against adopting the law. But for this to happen, the French citizens need to mobilise once again.

Europeans have already demonstrated their ability to get together when they protested against the adoption of software patents earlier this year, so let's hope that the current attempt by the French government to adopt another controversial law will suffer the same fate.

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As an example, those who download the libdvdcss library to watch encrypted DVDs on Linux or find a way to make a backup copy of a copy-protected music CD might face criminal penalties.Īs a web site advocating the use of Free Software we find this trend unacceptable and worth fighting against. Once it happens, it will be illegal for French residents to circumvent any copy-protection or encryption technologies. France is the first major target and, if not prevented, it will become the first country in Europe to have a law similar to DMCA (correction: Finland is the first). Now it appears that this trend is moving across the big pond and into Europe. We have seen the dangerous trend of big businesses in the United States influencing the law - by lobbying and successfully instituting controversial protection measures, such as software patents or the infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Miscellaneous news: SESUSE, Patrick Volkerding, FreeBSD projects for volunteersĪbout software freedom and Linux migration efforts.Commentary: About software freedom and Linux migration efforts in Berlin, Prague and Cape Town.Finally, we'll take a brief look at the new Ark Linux 2005.2. In the news section we'll introduce Security Enhanced SUSE, congratulate Patrick Volkerding, and draw your attention to a newly compiled list of FreeBSD projects for volunteer programmers. This issue covers a variety of interesting topics, including a call to protest against introducing a DMCA-style law in France, Linux migration efforts by Berlin, Prague and Cape Town, and an insider's feedback to our last week's feature on backporting newly released applications to existing distributions. Welcome to this year's 50th issue of DistroWatch Weekly. About DistroWatch Contact Us Page Hit Ranking Page Hit Trends Advertise Frequently Asked Questions Contributing Donate Our Donations ProgrammeĭistroWatch Weekly A weekly opinion column and a summary of events from the distribution worldĭistroWatch Weekly, Issue 130, 12 December 2005