Bon, pour en revenir au débat sur la propriété intellectuelle, qui est bien le plus intéressant, voici un bon article de boingboing à ce sujet :

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/02/eu-study-more-exclus.html

For the first time, the European Commission has undertaken a study on a copyright-like law to determine whether it does more harm than good -- and they've concluded that giving copyrights to people who compile databases actually hurts the database industry.

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When you actually compare the US and EU database industries to assess whether more property right hurt or help the database industry, it's clear that no rights are better than lots of rights. Letting the first company that compiles a database control all the uses of that database for half a century means that there's less competition and less innovation. In the US, no database rights have yielded the largest databases in the world (Amazon, Google, the Internet Archive, etc) and more investment in and more profits from databases.