France has now officially done three good things in its entire history:
1. Gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty.
2. Gave Israel the nuclear technology to build an A-bomb.
3. Told the crowd of copyright fascists to go stuff themsleves.
This vitory will no doubt be short-lived. The "artist" crowd that France cow-tows to regularly is already screaming bloody murder, as is the unaccountable "international community" which demands an intellectual property regime that is both anti-consumerist and anti-fair use.
But as symbolic gestures go, its pretty sweet at the moment.
Posted by Justin Levine at December 23, 2005 01:40 PM | TrackBack