French Lawmakers Approve 'iTunes Law'

An anonymous reader writes "Lawmakers in the French government have passed a controversial iTunes law, which has the stated intention of forcing Apple to allow purchased music to be universally useable." From the article: "In a statement issued after lawmakers hashed out the final compromise text last week, Apple said it hoped the market would be left to decide 'which music players and online music stores are offered to consumers.' The final compromise asserts that companies should share the required technical data with any rival that wants to offer compatible music players and online stores, but it toned down many of the tougher measures backed by lower-house lawmakers early on."

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Godwin

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice to see France taking up arms against the Nazis again.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

awesome

[e-wood]

I, for one, welcome our new free-notfree-DRM overlords!

If history repeats itself...

[adidalax]

...doesn't that mean that France will loose and we Yanks will have to come to their rescue?

Re:If history repeats itself...

[heinousjay]

Haha, troll? The post is a lot of things, but troll it is not.

What would be funny is if France invades Iraq to liberate the country from the clutches of the US.

Re:The market can only decide if it CAN decide

[tacarat]

If the French government had their way (remember, these are the people who invent new French words to make sure that nobody is tainting their precious language), there'd be a French Region, French DVD players would only play French Region DVDs, and only the French could release movies with the French Region, any other movie must be translated to France and reviewed before permitted to play. All other regions would be banned by law.

You forgot to mention that there must be a mime interpretation of the video and the DVDs would be stamped onto thin slices of baguette.