HADOPI law finally voted by my local representative

As expected, the French HADOPI law was voted earlier today by the Assemblée Nationale.

As expected, my local representative voted in favour of this law.

I had however kept a secret hope that he would abstain for this vote, following to the email I have received from his assistant following to our meeting. Mr Vannson planned to take the floor during the finale discussions. He had sent me for review the text they wrote, which perfectly matched my arguments, and even referred to the law as a “Rube Goldberg machine” (“Ma conviction est que nous avons monté une usine à gaz” in the original version). This text also stated that he was netiher convinced nor satisfied by the law.

His speech planned for the final discussions of the law never happened, and was replaced by a single line question to the Minister, during a meeting of the Law Commission.
This question was even technically incorrect as he refers to firewall, whereas I had (with a great help from other members of APRIL) amended this part of the text to refer to “usage control software”:

M. François Vannson. Les logiciels « pare-feu » ne risquent-ils pas, madame la ministre, de nuire aux logiciels libres ?
Mme la ministre. Il n’y a aucune menace sur les logiciels libres, qui peuvent tout à fait accepter des logiciels de sécurisation.

From: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/rapports/r1626.asp

Which could be approximately translated as follows:

M. François Vannson. Mrs Minister, aren’t firewall a threat on Free Software?
Mrs Minister. There is no threat on Free Software who can accept well accept securisation software.

I must hence express my real disappointment.
Now, let’s hope this law won’t be applicable, following the idea of most of its opponents.

I won’t write to my local representative, as I think it is totally hopeless. I guess he will get the pingbacks from this blog post, as his own political weblog runs on Free Software!