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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Update again, Linkertop and Gmiix, two french startup in the aggregation business have closed their door to prevent any legal problem…
After some updates in order to prevent legal troubles, www.crossfeeds.com is back on line.