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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

His party lost hard in the EU Parliement elections tonight. The last legislative elections in France were a few years ago, and this is the one he's calling for right now.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (22 children)

Not PM, president. It's part of the constitution to be able to dissolve the National Assembly.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Remeber when Microsoft banned some Xbox players for screenshots they took in singleplayer, local games? Because it turns out all screenshots were uploaded to the cloud without properly informing users?

Naaah... no way they're going to do that again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think the issue is the same as Apple being anti-competitive about the AppStore. Sure, techically, both Steam and the PSN are platforms for selling games, but they're each restricted to specific non-overlapping platforms (respictively PC and PlayStation) where there they have a (near for Steam, absolute for PSN) monopoly. Hence, anticompetitive behavior.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't see why France would need more, considering they have 290 nuclear bombs, and are fourth after the US, Russia, and China.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

J'imagine que les deputés Renaissance dans le groupe de gauche sont des ex-PS qui ont choisi de rester dans leur ex-groupe au niveau européen ? (ou qui y sont revenu en tournant leur veste une deuxième foix ?)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Well, in this case of 1 000 000 downloads, that would make a 50 000 dollar difference. Not really something 'little'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nonetheless, experts expect the final agreement to be revealed by the end of March as the Parliament is pushing to close all the open legislative processes before the upcoming European elections scheduled in June.

So basically, the law's unlikely to change much before being pushed to vote, which considering how stupid it is, it's likely to be outright rejected like Chat Control by the Parliement.

Still, it's good to raise awareness on the issue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oof. And that would have been such a good law too...

Then again, with a name like FDP, their actions just conform to their patronym (at least in countries with a language based on latin).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

That's great news! Always hated those paywalled research papers and greedy publishers who get away with freaking 100% royalty. Hopefully other organisations will follow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

In which case the ban should have happened upon sharing not recording. I mean if it isn't clear that the records you make of singleplayer offline games are published online, then banning someone for what they record feels more like moral policing than anything else tbh.

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