Gilles Gravier's Weblog
Gilles Gravier's rants about things in general... security, open source, privacy, java, music... in particular.
HADOPI - Maintenant on fait quoi?
Bien sur, on continue a luter!
D'abord, le processus n'est pas encore fini... et il reste de nombreuses etapes. C'est clair que cette loi est mauvaise. Elle ignore une bonne partie des mecanismes existants de telechargements et de partages. Elle oublie, de plus, que la plus part des outils P2P modernes sont en train de recevoir (ou ont deja recu) des fonctionallites de dissimulation (cryptographie) et d'anomymisation (Tor, ou IP2)...
De plus, elle stigmatise un protocole (BitTorrent) qui a des utilisations tout a fait legitimes par l'industrie (Sun Microsystems met a disposition ses logiciels OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org via BitTorrent pour realiser des economies majeures de bande passante).
Enfin, elle place la France en porte-a-faux avec la legislation europeenne. A ce sujet, je me demande si il ne serait pas possible a une association, disons, par exemple, l'APRIL (Frederic, tu lis ceci?) de mettre en place une structure (des avocats, du conseil, peut-etre meme du financement) pour qu'un internaute "puni" par l'HADOPI puisse simplement remplir un formulaire et se voir mis a disposition une assistance et une procedure simplifiee pour porter sa plainte directement aux autorites europeennes...
Alors? Quelle sera la prochaine etape pour combattre cette loi inutile, retrograde, archaique, et injuste? 
Posted at 04:21PM May 13, 2009 by gravax in Music | Comments[0]
Why closed, proprietary platforms are to be avoided... whenever possible!
Those who know me know I am very much against Apple's commercial behavior. With the iPod, they sell a closed, proprietary platform, which is bad enough, but they also completely control what you can put on it.
The following article explains what happened to an author who wrote a nice application, and, after some updates of it, saw it banned from the Apple Store.
Apple basically has right of life or death on the software you write for their platform. Even if they don't really understand what it does (the article explains why this is the case)...
Of course, you can always jailbreak your phone (which I recommend anybody stuck with an iPhone do as soon as they can) but this voids guaranty, and some may not like it...
I chose a phone with a truly open platform : Symbian OS. Open Source. Easy to write code to. And anybody can install what they want on the phone. And it's stable! Ditch your closed phone platform. Get one that is desgined with 21st century principles!
Posted at 09:07PM May 12, 2009 by gravax in Opensource | Comments[6]
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