Apple Sued in France for iPod Music Royalties

alex_guy_CA writes "A musicians rights group in France is suing Apple Computer for back royalties due from iPod sales. It seems in France, all CDs, hard drives, and the like owe musicians money in case any of it is used for piracy. Only Apple isn't paying up." I want compensation from sales of Microsoft Windows just in case it is used for spreading viruses.

Comments

Re:viruses with microshit

[z00ky]

scuse me, if you're running WINDOWS, you deserve the viruses, let alone any microsoft product. you should know better.

Answer to the question

[MImeKillEr]

1. Claim Bin Laden is hiding in Paris
2. Carpet bomb France
3. ??
4. Profit!

In the next world war, the loser has to keep France. Why not give 'em a clean slate to start with?

Nuke France

[Anonymous Coward]

First they insult and attack the USA because we dared to liberate the Iraqi people and in the process cut off their lucrative weapons program for Saddam, and now they are punishing American corporations using rediculous laws. Why the fuck isn't Bush imposing sanctions on France already?

They're up to it again

[j0hndoe]

Just another case of France trying to impose its laws on an American company. When will they learn that nobody else cares? It was like that case where they sued Yahoo over Nazi images, won in French court, and then Yahoo got a US judge to say they didn't have to follow the order.

WTF? Is this funny?! No, it's lame janitor comment

[Anonymous Coward]

I want compensation from sales of Microsoft Windows just in case it is used for spreading viruses.

OMFG! A 'M$' joke. lololololololololroflrofllololol omg!

Compensation

[Anonymous Coward]

I want compensation from sales of Microsoft Windows just in case it is used for spreading viruses.

You only get royalties if you wrote it.

Re:Come on guys...

[Anonymous Coward]

Insightful my ass..

If you don't like what you read here, why the fuck are you still reading here? If everyones opinions are not like yours and that bothers you, go somewhere else that makes you feel more comfortable. Some people DO NOT like MS at all based on thier past and current dealing with them. Accept that fact and move on with your own life.

I KNOW HOW TO STOP THIS!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't sell iPod's to the French.

Leave them behind, and let schmucks like Creative dump their junk on them.

Don't pay apple...

To do so, is to state that the French are right about something, and as all us "euro"-phobic posters know, France is evil, wrong, and stupid.

simply put

[xsyberpunk]

France is dumb.

Re:What a law...

[Pieroxy]

You know how french people are! They would say "Fuck off" faster than you can think and M$ would just loose the french market. You can't take a whole country as hostage. Everyone (in other countries) would think: "Ummm, I should be more carerul, these MS guys really are supidier than I thought. I'll get some Linux just in case..."

I'm glad you're reading slashdot, that means you're not an executive. Your company would fail in no time with such tactics ;-)

Re:Nonsense !

[deanj]

Ah, the hate flows freely from you, doesn't it.

Millions of people in Iraq and Afganistan are happy to be rid of the Taliban and Hussein (and his sons).

If it were up to you, the rape rooms, torture chambers would be up in Iraq, and the Taliban would still be destroying ancient artifacts.

And don't even get me started about what they're doing to their women over there.

People like you make me sick.

Re:Protection of liberties

[Anonymous Coward]

please tell me you are trolling... otherwise i will be forced to modify downward my estimate of the intelligence needed to operate a keyboard.

Re:What a law...

[Half-pint HAL]

Please don't be so US-centric! The DMCA is not a French law, and this is French litigation we're talking about.

Do you know the finer points of French fair-use legislation? It's likely to be quite different from your own.

HAL

Re:I don't agree with the law

[poot_rootbeer]

When bird flu was found in Delaware and the EU banned imports of US poultry due to safety concerns, the US "retaliated" and banned certain European imports.

To alter a familiar quote: It's the economics, stupid.

The ban had the effect of changing the level of exports out of the US. Unless the level of imports into the US was adjusted to compensate, a trade imbalance would result.

This wasn't petty revenge, it was a considered effort to maintain trade equity.

Re:Americans laughing at the French

[diablobynight]

Ummm...Americans owe the french, France was around for centuries and failed to have an army that could keep them from being marched over. But we owe them thanks because they helped us when our country was less than a century old? I think the U.S. developed in ways that France will never understand. Owe, and maybe we owe them for that French and Indian war, where they were enemies, or maybe we owe them, for selling jets to Iraq after we embargoed them. Maybe we owe france for getting marched over quicker than Poland. I know, we love the french because of their fine wine and cheese, I hate to say this, but wisconsin has better of both, and you don't have to walk through raw sewage in the streets to get to it.

We don't owe the French shit, without us, they'd all be speaking German right now.

And without them, we would all be speaking English, with high taxes, from a parlamentary government. Hmmmm....That sounds like, nah

I can't believe it

[steak]

The only western country to screw up democracy, now screws with capitalism. surprise, surprise, surprise.

I want compensation

[eagl]

I want compensation from France in case they surrender to someone and we have to bail them out. Again. How about repaying us for WWII before coming to us for money?

Re:We're #2!

[Eunuchswear]

Oh no, you killed the jews you Nazi bastard!

French standard policy.

[CycoChuck]

If the French have the same policy in court that they do in international affairs, they'll back down and surrender when Apple stands up to them. After all, the first words a French child is taught is "I surrender."