French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

[Alex Hudson]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 18:50 +0100, Jerome Dominguez wrote:
> 25 November 2005. FSF France press release. Friday November 18th,
> 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software
> authors: "You shall change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop
> publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free
> software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the
> "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill pass in the Parliament.

Could someone explain exactly what the problem is here?

>From reading the article, I get the impression that the bill seeks to
prevent software accessing media without some form of DRM, which seems a
step beyond the already bad EUCD situation - is that right?

Cheers,

Alex.