Vive les Copies! French Legislation Tackles Copyright

摘要

The French minister of culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, has a growing controversy on his hands: the DADVSI law on copyright in the digital age. The most contentious aspect of the DADVSI law is the attempt to curb illegal downloading of music and movies via P2P programs through the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM). This has caused uproar among the Internet-using public and divided the governing political party representatives in the national assembly.