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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.
I have some questions on this.
Is this action only for those sold in France or for all IPODs sold everywhere?
While I have my suspicions of what the answers are, the article did not address them. The questions lead to some other thoughts
France will surrender.
France is a country who's economy is tanking, due in large part to the extreme socialistic tendencies it promotes. The rest of the world would do well to ignore any ideas they come up with.
...every time a frog croaks, someone ends up paying.
I hope Apple tells France to f**k off and simply stops selling the devices
in France. Maybe then the outraged French consumer would get to see the
SACEM dragged into the street, shot, burned and pissed on.
(Collecting "fees against piracy" from blank media is ridiculous, less
ethical than the piracy in the first place. I guess (as always) being
sanctioned by The State makes it ethical.)
The heat from below can burn your eyes out
Excellent. So we've just settled a lot of debates like gay marriage, the Patriot Act, DMCA, etc, etc.
After all, the law is the law.
Whatever is the current law is the current law and has to be followed. However, the law is always subject to change...
- In several states it is forbiden to film in theatres, although the screeners are of terrible quality and no-one with enough sense will watch them.
- There are software patents.
- Any psychopath is allowed to have a gun.
As if I didn't have enough reasons to hate USA already...
This whole things if f'ing BS...I mean I *might* use my hammer to smack someone, where's the "skull bashing tariff" to cover the health care costs of the potential victims? Heck I *might* use a pen and paper to record sheet music from some RIAA musician...
This whole tariff thing is completely and utterly baseless and I don't know how they can defend it!
"we Americans have been laughing at the French since looooooong before 9/11."
We have been laughing at the French since 1918, when we landed in their country, walked across it, and saw a war that had dragged on for years end within months of our entry into it.
We laughed at the French when we told them (and the rest of Europe) to stuff it and didn't join the League of nations.
We laughed at the French in the '20s and '30s, as the Germans rearmed and the French disarmed. We laughed when the League of Nations censured the Germans for violating the treaty of Versailles but took no action to enforce it.
We laughed at the French in 1939 when they failed to live up to their treaty obligations when Poland was invaded. We laughed when they said the Poles lost because of their stupidity and that a REAL fighting force couldn't be beaten so easily. We laughed when the Germans invaded France (again) through the low countries (again) and France evacuated Paris (again). We laughed when they rolled over and let the Germans occupy them. We laughed when we had to sink their warships to prevent their use against us.
We quit laughing when the France's utter failure to prevent the spread of Nazi Germany put Britain on the verge of invasion. Rather than rolling over, the Brits fought the Nazis to a standstill.
We were distracted temporarily by a war in the Pacific with Japan and in African territories near Fascist Italy. Since France had rolled over, we had no beachhead in France; we'd have to make our own. It took several years.
And then we laughed at the French again as we invaded their country and leveled their towns and kissed their wives and daughters. We laughed as, for the second time in 25 years, we defeated France's enemies less than a year after entering France. Having learned our lesson, we have occupied France's enemies ever since.
In a few decades, when the US will have been long gone from Germany, I expect to laugh myself sick at the news that the Germans have overrun Holland and Belgium and are moving to occupy Paris. With any luck, we'll be driving in from Normandy again, racing the Germans for the prize of getting there first.
I guess you must have been the teacher of GWB...
Not every person in the world think killing people is the only answer to any problem. Thank god that Texas has only so many people. And I guess the population is decreasing quickly based on your post.
The biggest problem with people from USA is that they think the only way of handling anything is the US way. I understand it is a problem to be deaf, blind, mentally challenged and arrogant at the same time, and I petty you since your world view is so blinded by hatred for your next of kin.
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
Who the hell listens to French music anyway? The French?
getting payment from legal users that presume compensation for when the devices are used for piracy
This tax is fair, because it is applied to the populace of a country for not producing someone smart enough to invent a technologies sophisticated enough to protect their businesses' music media as necessary. The government of France is simply taxing its populace for lagging behind the Darwin curve."They're rude to our tourists"
(1) Parisians are rude to EVERYONE. To most Americans, there is nothing in France except Paris.
(2) Try speaking sometimes besides English when you're not in an English speaking country?
(3) Tourists aren't people, anyway.
"they maybe bathe once a year"
Much more often than you.
"(since to them, French is an obviosly superior language)"
Obviously, you don't care so much for your own language if you can't spell.
"then they call US arrogant?"
I have seen five times more ridiculous bullshit concerning the French in this thread than the amount of anti-American sentiment I experienced during five months in France.
Please keep your head in your ass so you will suffocate sooner.
North Korea has Nukes.
Yep. Some people seem to have got the idea that we'd actually pick a fight with a country that has weapons of mass destruction. I can't imagine where they could get such a ridiculous notion.
Nobody said that France or Canada aren't liberal.
This is a socialist measure. They are free as a society not individually.
The government has been very secritive about the numbers of Iraqi dead. Independent researchers assume it is somewhere near 55,000. Iraq never supported terrorists. No proof was ever found. It was just another lie by the administration. Our own CIA and many other security organizations said that all the reports that they tried to gain Uranium were forged. The only ones to actually believe were the British Intelligence Units. A senior security official on Bushes staff apologized for allowing that lie to be in the presidents State of the Union speech.
Vote for new mod!!! Score:-2,Imbecile
I am prepared to be modded down, but what can I do, these idiots can say anything because they post their trolling crap as anonymous cowards.
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