Dear All, <div> I am sending this email to the ubuntu list even if I know that there is no direct connection between its subject and ubuntu. So please, for all of you who think that I should not use this list, please accept my apology. As I said, there is no direct link to ubuntu, but as many of us chose ubuntu/gnu/linux because of freedom, we should also be aware of what is happening within Switzerland about our very freedom. Two months ago, on October the 5th, a federal decree has been voted which implicate a modification of the law related to intellectual property and copyrights. This laws will have big consequences especially about so called "violations of technical protection measures" (for instance DRM). Do not get me wrong, I am not defending here the right to steal music or other copyrighted material, but the right of owning the things you buy. As an exemple, if you legally by drm protected music, you will not be able to listen to it on your ubuntu plateform and if you try to do so, you can be punished and be treated as a criminal for that. </div> Therefore I am just asking you to get informed about this subject because the press did not really informed us. Also for those who want to react it is not too late, as there is now, and until the 24. of January, the possibility to sign a federal referendum so that the swiss people can vote about this law. 50'000 signatures are needed! You will find here bellow a few link about the subject. It is not to late but we have very little time! Thank You and best regards Barthélémy Rochat The law modification in German: <a href="http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/ff/2007/7201.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/ff/2007/7201.pdf</a> in French: <a href="http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/ff/2007/6805.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/ff/2007/6805.pdf</a> No Swiss DMCA: more Info and possibility to download referendum sheets against the Revision of the Copyright act as of 5. October 2007 <a href="http://www.no-dmca.ch/" target="_blank">http://www.no-dmca.ch/</a> Direct link to the referendum Sheets: in German: <a href="http://www.no-dmca.ch/RUrheberRG_Unterschriftenliste_d.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.no-dmca.ch/RUrheberRG_Unterschriftenliste_d.pdf</a> in French: <a href="http://www.no-dmca.ch/RUrheberRG_Unterschriftenliste_f.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.no-dmca.ch/RUrheberRG_Unterschriftenliste_f.pdf</a> in Italian:  <a href="http://www.no-dmca.ch/RUrheberRG_Unterschriftenliste_f.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.no-dmca.ch/RUrheberRG_Unterschriftenliste_i.pdf</a>A little presentation about the stupidity of American DMCA: <a href="http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-12-04--DMCA/2007-12-04-on-the-digital-millenium-copyright-act.html" target="_blank">http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-12-04--DMCA/2007-12-04-on-the-digital-millenium-copyright-act.html </a>