|| On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:19:36 +0100 (MET) || Paul Wouters paul@xtdnet.nl wrote:
pw> Patrice came up with a worrying thing that is especially pw> interesting to fsfeurope:
pw> From: Patrice Riemens patrice@xs4all.nl
pw> The new Italian law, whereby each and every piece of soft and pw> hardware used for commercial purpose (i.e. pretty much any, pw> including public space, even when non-profit - ascii cafe, pay pw> attention!) must carry a stamp of approval by the authorities pw> (against copyright infringments) which is so complicated & pw> expensive to obtain that only very big firms (think of one) can pw> manage to do so, is another nice example. pw> ...
pw> (Full story in nettime - Or is it's again a piece of 'monkey pw> sandwich'- Dutch for urban myth - peddled by afficionados of pw> conspiracy theories?)
This sounds like you are talking about the SIAE law. Please check out
there you will find a good analysis about this by Alessandro.
Regards, Georg