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.

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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.