I read an article about these kinds of problems, which explained the disproportionate fines in US law by saying that while French law makes people pay for the individual prejudice, US law makes people pay for the global prejudice of all offenders. I do find that policy as stupid as you do.
Here is France, they're trying to get a law that would cut off the Internet access of offenders. However, the first version of the law was found partly unconstitutional, and the patch they wrote up looks like it's heading that way too.
I agree with you that the music industry needs to take the plunge into the 21th century. I'll agree with their argument that the Internet made music sharing a whole lot bigger that it was back in the days of taping the radio (and songs on the radio are cut off at the end precisely for that, at least in France) but the Internet is there. If they were to set up Internet shops that were easy to find, didn't use DRMs, and didn't give the customers the impression they were ripped of. (Alternatively, they could start by justifying the price of CDs, with hard numbers.)
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Here is France, they're trying to get a law that would cut off the Internet access of offenders. However, the first version of the law was found partly unconstitutional, and the patch they wrote up looks like it's heading that way too.
I agree with you that the music industry needs to take the plunge into the 21th century. I'll agree with their argument that the Internet made music sharing a whole lot bigger that it was back in the days of taping the radio (and songs on the radio are cut off at the end precisely for that, at least in France) but the Internet is there. If they were to set up Internet shops that were easy to find, didn't use DRMs, and didn't give the customers the impression they were ripped of. (Alternatively, they could start by justifying the price of CDs, with hard numbers.)