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"The French parliament will soon debate a draft law "about the High Authority for the dissemination of works and protection of the rights on the internet". The project incorporates the recommendations made by the then CEO of FNAC (biggest CD and DVD retail stores in France), Denis Olivennes. One of the key measures is to sanction a violation of copyright by cutting access to the Internet. [...] It is impossible to effectively control the flow of information in the digital age by the law and technology without causing serious harm to civil liberties and hindering economic and social development. It took 3000 years to demonstrate that it was impossible to fit circles into squares, with a ruler and a compass, without loss, because of the transcendence of Pi. As squaring the circle in its time, squaring the net will be only overtaken by changing tools and perspectives. Will it take 3000 years for our elites to understand it?"

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