French Governoment not so keen about P2P (Score 3, Informative)

French laws issue related to P2P are related at http://www.ratatum.com/ Check in particular http://www.ratiatum.com/news2755_DADVSI_remaniemen t_du_texte_vers_moins_de_sanctions.html (in French, sorry)

Basically:
* Just before Chrismas, the government has attempted to vote a law allowing more sanction against P2P
* Some parlement members (both left&right) has decided to modify the law in a direction allowing P2P if a flat fee is paid by the user ("license globale")
* This modification has been voted
* The leader from both political party UMP (government) and PS (opposition) are against this modification of the law
* The goverment want to modify against the law, to remove what has been added in december and to ask the parlement to revote, but with less sanctions as before : 38 Euro in case of infrigement (~ 45$)
* Both side are trying to petition the public. In particular the media company are pushing the artist to says that "Allowing P2P will kill artistic creation"

Now, the debate around this law is very alive in French media, which is a good thing IMHO, because it will be very difficult to make a very restrictive laws.
The new law will contains also provisiond enforcing "fair use" (or "private copy" in French), i.e. to allow to bypass DRM to allow interop (between iTune and some MP3 players for example).