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PARIS - founder of Facebook and Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt Mark Zuckerberg warned Governments to move forward on the regulation of the Internet because the blows to tame its rough edges risked harming its virtues.

At the end of a forum for two days in Paris, their comments exposed deep between tech titans rifts, academics and political responsible even while they were trying to agree on a message to world leaders at the Group of eight countries industrialized nations meeting Thursday at DeauvilleFrance.

With the forum, French President Nicolas Sarkozy sought to put his stamp on the debate on the regulation of the Internet and to encourage the digital economy in its mandate for one year as President of the G8.

Despite a glittering guest list, the event nicknamed the eG8 ended with some concrete policy recommendations and especially vague conclusions that the delegation of the six leaders of technology, including Schmidt and Zuckerberg, will present to the leaders of Deauville Thursday.

The result highlights the difficulty of finding a way to regulate the Internet that is acceptable to Governments and industry.

Zuckerberg, the contractor for 27 years, which created the social network with 500 million users worldwide has been hailed as a rock star, at a session of questions and answers on Wednesday and rented to create a tool that helped trigger democratic movements in the Arab world.

"People tell me one side" it's great you have played a significant role in the Arab spring, but he is also kind of scared because you enable sharing and collect information on people "," said Zuckerbergwho was wearing a t-shirt and jeans.

"But it is difficult to have one without the other...". You can isolate certain things that you like on the Internet and other things that you don't have control.

Schmidt earlier sounded a similar note when he said to the Assembly: "technology will move faster than Governments, to do not legislate before that you understand the consequences."

Divisions on copyright proved to be too large to be bridged, and the question of how the burden of investing in telecommunications networks should be shared between the telecommunications operators and the giants of the Web that depend on them.

In the final panel to finalize the message to the leaders of the G8, Schmidt faced with Vivendi CEO Jean Bernard Levy on copyright issues.

Levy, whose society music and video games that are often pirated, said: "I do not think that you can compromise copyright." It is the right of the artist to decide how his work is used. ?

Schmidt shot back: "I would be opposed to any absolute statement." Copyright is not an absolute right. It is a right. Copyright in one form or another is a balance of interests. ?

Maurice Levy, Executive Director of advertising firm Publicis, which is the host of the Conference, said that they did not have to resolve many debates on the future of the Internet.

"We will not in Deauville with a list of grievances or requirements," said Levy at the close of the forum. "We're going with the idea to share our points of view and have an Exchange with the leaders."