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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. /me smug by BestNicksRTaken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm so glad I'm moving to France, where free speech actually means something still.

    I returned to the UK from the USA nine months ago after getting fed up with the corporations owning the US government.

    Soon France is going to be the only place in the world where you can use P2P (I couldn't even download Fedora 5t3 the other day as my UK ISP TalkTalk blocks BitTorrent) and actually listen to your own music!

    That Linux box sitting on the end of my ADSL2+ connection in France is going to be really useful when I'm working in the UK ;-)

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