Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,

By approving the law you have proven that France is not worthy to be a representative för democracy.

Thus I vote for the immediate closure of the official organisations of the EU, including

The European Parliament,
The International Institute of Human Rights,
The European Council,
The permanent office of the Human Frontier science programme,
The European Regional Development Centre,
The European cultural TV channel Arte

all lying in Strassbourg, France

Embassy of Piracy

http://embassyofpiracy.org

Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,

Hey Nicolas,

If your people like BitTorrent and TPB let them have it, free and uncensored.

and you wont be out of a job come election time.

Simple.

Embassy of Piracy

http://embassyofpiracy.org

viva la Pirat’ Byran’

Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,

You should keep in mind that you have the right to act as the leader of France for one reason, and on reason only. You are chosen by the people of France, and there for you are to act upon the wishes of the inhabitants of your country not the wishes of the media industry.

I’m certain that this will prove very costly for you in the next election when your employers can make their voices heard once again.

Embassy of Piracy

http://embassyofpiracy.org

The Embassy of Piracy is seriously concerned about the action of the French authorities voting yes to the Hadopi law which will make it possible to block our ambassador from our own territory the Internet.

The Embassy of Piracy urges the French authorities to stop the implementation of the Hadopi law immediately and to undertake all necessary measures to stop the restrictions of the Internet in France.

Ambassadors of the freedom of Internet

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We want to mention, as a brief introduction, one of the most lucid, perceptive and intelligent thinkers than granted France to this world:

«J’aimais l’auteur du livre de l’Esprit [Helvétius]. Cet homme valait mieux que tous ses ennemis ensemble; mais je n’ai jamais approuvé ni les erreurs de son livre, ni les vérités triviales qu’il débite avec emphase. J’ai pris son parti hautement, quand des hommes absurdes l’ont condamné pour ces vérités mêmes.»
Voltaire
Questions sur l’Encyclopédie
Probably we know that quote in its more apocryphal, more popular and more synthetic form, the one that an inspired Evelyn B. Hall summarized it, in his name, in 1906:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. »

Yes, of course, Inspiration.
We have inherited the brave image of an historic France that has fought itself through the history against the ignorance, the oppression and the tyranny using as its only effective arms “L’intelligence et la plume”. This fight has brought the light of freedom and tolerance to the more remote and darker corners of our world. These ideas, thanks to their propagation, have freed us and they have let us grow up.
The Universal Declaration of the Human rights (DUDH), adopted by the General Assembly of the UN in 1948 (Resolution 217 A (III), December the 10th, 1948) generally considered as the declaration par excellence on international human rights. Its article 19, of obligatory observance for all the States by the international right public, consuetudinary, guarantees the right to the freedom of expression and information in the following terms:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
Time has passed. Today, from the quietness our daily comfort; we watch horrified the return of a new obscurantism rising in the heart of this big country:
February the 10th, 2009. The Mrs. Morano’s Lawsuit: the greatest “première” in the online video history. Nadine Morano, French Secretary of State for the Family, overreacting about the received comments against her, for her published video (in favor of the filter implementing over Internet), push the Police to demand YouTube and Dailymotion to provide them with the IP addresses of the internet users who have left comments against the secretary.
According to the newspaper 20 Minutes, the judicial require sent to Dailymotion and YouTube stipulates that both sites must “provide in all urgency the dates, hours and IP addresses and all other identification element used to publish the comments online, here attached, of internet users whose pseudonyms follow here…”
Even the most less-educated of the political analysts understands that behind each evocation of the political class “claiming for protection against defamation or whatever like that” it exists the profuse intention to instrumentalize fear to dissuade the common citizen to raise his/her critical voice.
Internet has become a worldwide opportunity of equality, which gives us the chance to make each voice as important as other one. Like all force without owner, so the freedom, that causes fear.
May the 7th, 2009:
The Person in charge of Web innovation, working for TF1 (a powerful French media network), was dismissed by expressed his personal and technical point of view, against the “Hadopi” law, in a personal email sent from his private email account to the parliamentary representative of the 17° arrondissement of Paris (his neighborhood). A letter, which in an incomprehensible way, was quickly sent back (“recommended”) to the legal director of TF1 by Minister of Culture Christine Albanel. Final reason for the dismissal: “divergences with the TF1 strategy”.
Today we are not talking about protecting the artistic creation with the law Hadopi, today we are talking about protecting a gang of already obsolete Dinosaurs and Mafiaas that try in a desperate way to conserve a model that has never, never, really promoted the artistic creation as itself. Until your own wife, surely in a difficult position in these times, deeply shares this true, as she expressed it to “Envoyé Spécial” in 2004.
But we need to stop for a second. Such problem about the copyrights, we are not really talking about this. It is not the real problem finally. The true is about the risk behind. It is not only about directly denying the legal status as fundamental right to the access to Internet, it is about opening a dangerous door for political control and censorship of the private life. If we control which shared information is protected by copyright at the same time also we are controlling all shared information, even which we shared in a strictly private character and not covered by any copyright. And we cannot deny the danger implied in that. If we spied to look for what is bad we must watch what is good, the problem is we are talking about spying privacy, we are talking about the risk of censorship, were talking about watching inside our homes. Finally we will leave all this responsibility to a susceptible administrative organism which could fall into several abuses and political manipulations, even worse, working without involving the Justice. An Organism which will decide who has the right to use Internet and who hasn’t it.
And this Organism will be rule by people like Mrs. Morano, like Mrs. Albanel.
Have we really lost ourselves?
Do we really want to go in this direction?
Are we not sufficiently intelligent to look for alternative models that do not put in risk our freedom?
Does the Freedom matter honestly?
We don’t doubt by a single second about your capacity to push this law as far as possible.
But finally, Mr. President, do you really want to be remembered in the future as the man who incited the destruction of Internet as a free world that gave us the chance to evolve?
Do you really think that satisfying certain obscure and egoistic interests worth it?

“I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Meter. »
De Gaulle
This phrase from De Gaulle seems, nowadays, from another and distant time.
Freedom cannot be reduced to be our slave, but it may just be possible to us to learn how to take care and to respect it.
Let us hope not to realize about its value when we lost it.
Let us hope no to come back to darker ages.

Embassy of Piracy
http://embassyofpiracy.org

Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,

Make it legal in your land, its may be the only reason I come to visit your lands. You can turn it legal and tax it make your people happy and enrich your lands. Make money on a new tax that is for something new not raising tax on the old. and they will love you for it.
-CEASAR KEN

Embassy of Piracy

http://embassyofpiracy.org

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Mr Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France
Dear Mr Sarkozy,

As an Ambassodor of Piracy and part time God i have to ask you to reconsider your action. Jesus multiply bread and fish like seeders multiply digital files on piratebay tracker.. its not a sin, its a MIRACLE

Embassy of Piracy

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