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Update: French war against RSS really strarted

 
After Fuzz, LesPipoles and Crossfeeds, it seems now that a large number of french website are going into legal trouble. Even small local websites are being sued because of a content they displayed with an RSS javascript or a widget.
The French situation (last week local elections were a disaster for the French President), is kinda […]

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After Fuzz, LesPipoles and Crossfeeds, it seems now that a large number of french website are going into legal trouble. Even small local websites are being sued because of a content they displayed with an RSS javascript or a widget.

The French situation (last week local elections were a disaster for the French President), is kinda tricky.
A ‘new economy’ State Secretary (sounds so 1.0) is about to be nominated, and whoever it is (ain’t gonna be Loic, that’s for sure), this RSS War might be a major bomb for him to dismantle as his first mission.

The blog community is not going to be easy with this, Power Bloggers here are mostly tech-savy, if not total geeks, and they deeply understand that this is a life-treating danger for the Internet they want. The 2.0 they’ve all be advocading, the web as a platform O’Reilly envisioned a few years ago.

The State Secretary is going to be on the fire-front from day 1, this could prove to be a totla disaster.

As a side-note, French President Nicolas Sarkozy nominated a yong wizz-kid as a personal internet consultant today…

This smells really bad, just my opinion.

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2 Commentaires

  1. Fabrice Epelboin a fait ce commentaire le 18 mars 2008 | Permalien

    Update again, Linkertop and Gmiix, two french startup in the aggregation business have closed their door to prevent any legal problem…

  2. dominique a fait ce commentaire le 27 mars 2008 | Permalien

    After some updates in order to prevent legal troubles, www.crossfeeds.com is back on line.

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