Re: Problematic distribution of P2P clients in France
Hello all,
sorry for the late answer, but I have gotten for some minutes
an answer back from my advocat in Strasbourg.
Am 2006-03-18 13:06:26, schrieb Simon Vallet:
> « Sanctions up to 300 000 € and three year imprisonment shall be
> required in the following cases :
> 1° To willingly edit, distribute to the public, or inform the public
> about, in any form, a device[2] whose obvious purpose is to permit
> unauthorized distribution of protected works
Using P2P software is NOT illegal.
> 2° To willingly, also through advertising, incite to use of software[3]
> mentioned in 1°
It is illegal to animate people to download copyrighted work.
> Now, since Debian distributes many P2P clients in main, I fear this
> could become problematic -- are those to be considered as a device as
> mentioned in 1°, or as software used for exchange of unprotected files
> as defined in the second paragraph ?
There are many sites where you can download leagl stuff
using P2P software. So it is not possible in France,
to interdir the use P2P software.
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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