[UKUUG MediaWatch] French deputy predicts the demise of OSS

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France's legislature finished drafting a law on Friday that it hopes will open up media content monopolies to competition. However, deputy Frédéric Dutoit warned that open source developers could face prison under a provision that would outlaw software which allowed the circumvention of copy-protection measures. The France-based developers behind the open source VideoLAN were worried [...]

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