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France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the capitalism-doesn't-always-play-nice dept.

JordanL writes "It appears that France is pushing through a law that some feel may force Apple to open iTunes to other players. From the article: 'Under a draft law expected to be voted in parliament on Thursday, consumers would be able to legally use software that converts digital content into any format. It would no longer be illegal to crack digital rights management -- the codes that protect music, films and other content -- if it is to enable to the conversion from one format to another.'"

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  1. Consumer rights and IP by ajdlinux · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems to me that the French government is protecting consumer rights from music companies who just want to force their ways of protecting 'Intellectual Property'. Slashdot last year had a story about the Australian government introducing copyright amendment laws to make private copying of videos and TV shows (only for private purposes of course) legal.

  2. Re:L'iPod by this+great+guy · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a grammatical error, the correct writing is: L'iPod est mort, vive l'iPod.

    See ? Being French is advantageous. Anytime someone tries to write something in french on /. you can be sure to find an error. So just do like me:
    1- Reply to fix the error.
    2- Wait for the nice "+5, Informative" mod.
    3- ???
    4- Karma increased !

  3. Misleading article by romain+wartel · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm afraid the article does not relate *at all* what happens in France at the moment, regarding DRM and "Internet piracy".

    The French parliament is currently discussing new laws, that will implement the EUCD directive, by forbidding and severly punishing any attempt to circumvent DRM protection and copyrighted material downloads. This project is called DADvSI.
    Some MPs are even pushing to forbid the development, diffusion and the use of P2P software.

    Lots of (artits, users, musicians, etc.) communities are opposed to all this.
    MPs first voted against this project and adopted a global licence (monthtly fee for unrestricted private downloads), but the French minister of Culture said it was not acceptable and he had the parliament to re-discuss the project again.

    More information (all in French) at:

    http://fr.news.yahoo.com/10032006/7/projet-dadvsi- la-licence-globale-repasse-la-trappe.html
    http://eucd.info/
    http://lestelechargements.fr/
    http://www.odebi.org/new/theme/
    http://www.adami.fr/