"Officially referred to as the DADVSI, the law is France’s implementation of a 2001 EU Directive to harmonize copyright law by implementing rules similar to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."

So let's recall for a second the fact that this law, which you all are criticizing so heavily, came about because of the DMCA.

In particular, because the DMCA overeached, the French attempted some balancing, wanting a competitive marketplace, especially not one dominated by a foreign company.

So I propose a better solution: eliminate the DMCA, and this devil spawn of the DMCA also.

Note that those who support Free and Open Source Software are very, very critical of this law also, although for different reasons.

The EUCD.info group ran an Internet petition, which, as of June 2006, garnered more than 170,000 signatures.

Groups opposed to clauses in the law organised a variety of protest actions. The StopDRM group organised flash mobs.

Various groups organized a march against new French copyright law on May 7, 2006, as the bill was at the Senate; the March ended with flowers being laid in memoriam of authors' rights.

On June 9, 2006, a delegation including Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, went to the Hotel Matignon to meet prime minister Dominique de Villepin; however, the prime minister and his advisors refused to meet them.

The delegation protested the fact that they were turned away while business leaders such as Bill Gates from Microsoft got official reception. They laid down the list of 165,000 signatories of the EUCD.info petition in the gutter, as a sign of what they see as contempt for the concerns of ordinary citizen.