France

Beginning with the simple question, “Why did audiences grow silent?” Listening in Paris gives a spectator’s-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades [...]

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eBook Pirates “Hijack” Domain Name of Anti-Piracy Campaign

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This week at a grand press event the French Publishers Association announced their new anti-piracy portal ProtectionLivres.com. Through the website authors can search for and take down infringing content. An ambitious project, but the publisher group overlooked one small detail – the registration of their website’s domain. This oversight was quickly punished by an eBook pirate group who scooped up the domain to redirect it to an anti-DRM website.

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French Government Mulls Next Generation Anti-Piracy Measures

After pioneering one of the world’s first “three strikes” anti-piracy schemes the French are now turning their attention to other methods of obtaining unauthorized media. A new report just published by the Hadopi agency tackles the issue of streaming and direct download sites, which currently the organization is doing little about. No surprise that filtering, site blocking and domain seizures are being touted as possible solutions to this growing element of online piracy.

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René Clair: Cinema Yesterday and Today (1970/1972)

This is the first English translation of Rene Clair’s Cinema d’hier, cinema d’aujourd’hui, which, when it appeared in France in 1970, easily won the prize for best film book of the year. In it the master of French film comedy plays with time in much the same way that a film editor might – he [...]

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Pirated Cartoon Download Leads to Kindergarten Porn Show

A teacher with an apparently limited knowledge of file-sharing techniques committed a blunder of epic proportions last Friday. In an attempt to obtain a cartoon movie for her class to watch the teacher fired up a file-sharing client, tapped a few buttons and initiated a download . Taking the finished product into class, she fired up her computer and went outside to answer a phone call. When she returned the 3 to 5-year-old children in her care were watching a porn movie.

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After the End of the World: Film and Text

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The date is December 21, 2012. There has been a lot of talk about the world ending today. Most of it is idle chatter, but this obsession with the apocalypse captures the spirit of the times, implying some latent fear—or hope—far beyond pseudo-Mayan numerology. Given the seeming defeat of the revolutionary movements of 2011 and [...]

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Do Arabs Cry For Their Children Too?

The Obama Hypocrisy

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A-infos: (en) France, Alternative Libertair #222 – Debate: Prostitution – misunderstandings out (fr) [machine translation]

As part of the festival Equals Equals, held a debate on prostitution to explain two
opposing positions on this issue within the feminist movement.
On a subject that often brings passionate debates and polemics and passions, the
collective festival tried to put in place a mechanism allowing each party to explain its
differences, but also to show its points of agreement. The plateau was formed as follows.
Gaëlle Thébaud member of the group, has ensured the presentation of the evening.

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A-infos: (en) France, Alternative Libertair #222 – 110 years ago: The emergence of the Argentine working class (fr) [machine translation]

When capitalism developed there in the late nineteenth century, Argentina is still far
from having a social structure similar to Western European countries. The formation of a
working class to rapidly develop its own organizations will nevertheless…

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A-infos: (en) France, December 16 LGBT event.. why not manifest December 16 by OCL-Paris (fr) [machine translation]

We do not die of boredom! Or why not go show December 16 … —- Gosh, it still exists
fascists! 17 and 18 November in Paris homophobes all hairs are out in the street so
massive. (200 000 throughout France according to the organizers) Amazing? No…

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A-infos: (en) France, Alternating Current OCL #225 – summary + Editorial (fr) [machine translation]

summary —- Friday, December 7, 2012 by admi2 —- Editorial page 3 ï
http://oclibertaire.free.fr/spip.ph … —- resistance / Notre-Dame-des-Landes —- page
4 ï Airport? Ayrault bangs! —- resistance / major works —- page 7 ï Collective

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A-infos: (en) France, Alternative libertaire #221 – Quebec: Victory for elected (fr) [machine translation]

After the social movement of “Spring Maple”, the political situation has changed in Quebec
with the victory of the Parti Québécois. Victory through elections, can not satisfy those
who fought. —- There is still one month, the Quebec social situ…

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Scientists warn of sperm count crisis

Biggest-ever study confirms drastic decline in male reproductive health The reproductive health of the average male is in sharp decline, the world’s largest study of the quality and concentration of sperm has found. Between 1989 and 2005, average sperm counts fell by a third in the study of 26,000 men, increasing their risk of infertility. [...]

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A-infos: (en) France, "Living without hindrance, live freely, we want now! " (C.G.A) (fr) [machine translation]

Heterosexuality as “standard” single life and relationships between individuals, a
standard defined by the capitalist system and patriarchal, founded a foundation Domination
System that we face, and all that oppresses us all … — L hope that som…

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A-infos: (en) France, Non-capitalist development projects! Reclaiming land despoiled! "VINCI" ZAD outside the Notre Dame-des-Landes (CGA) (fr) [machine translation]

The airport project Notre-Dame-des-Landes was born in the late “60″ in the minds
capitalists and speculators. —- The site of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, elected in 1967, was
approved in 1970 by the Interministerial Committee for Planning to replace “N…

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A-infos: (en) France, Alternative libertaire #221 – Interview with Gregory Chambat: The alternative educational (fr) [machine translation]

Precipitate the revolution in unions subverting the institution within a “pedagogy of
direct action”, this is the program of revolutionary teachers, including Célestin Freinet.
Unfortunately, the revolution is overdue … So when some doubt and ab…

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A-infos: (en) France, Alternative libertaire #221 – Editocratie: Caroline Fourest, tails of Islamophobia (fr) [machine translation]

Caroline Fourest significantly contributed to Islamophobia acceptable to the left. His
speech is the reverse of that of Soral, the two sides of the same complementary racist
statement. —- Heckled at the party of humanity, Caroline Fourest was aga…

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A-infos: (en) France, libertarian alternative December (#223) (fr) [machine translation]

Contents —- Editorial —- The change is in the street
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?article5091 — Spotlight — Competitiveness
Pact: For employers it is in the pocket
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/spip.php?article5092 -…

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