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Apple to leave France

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Apple plans no surrender to France

"We will take our iTunes elsewhere"


By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 22 March 2006, 06:57
APPLE sauces said the outfit is planning to pull its super soaraway iTunes out of France.

The outfit is highly miffed after the French government had the cheek to suggest that it should open its DRM technology to rivals.

The French National Assembly voted 296-to-193 to approve an online copyright bill that would require online music services and MP3 player makers to open DRM technology up to competitor's devices and services. Apparently Apple?s Steve Jobs would rather eat dog dirt than allow rivals to fondle his iPod DRM technology.

One analyst at Piper Jaffray, Gene Munster has suggested that the outfit will shut down all its iTune access and take away its iPods. Since Apple only has two per cent of its sales in France it probably will not do it much damage. But Munster said that Apple fears that other countries will follow suit, which they might do if there is a big fuss or court cases in France. It is much better to softly and suddenly vanish away and never be met with again.

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'nuff said. French government forces Apple to open its DRM technology to rivals. Instead of losing lots of money, Apple will leave. Ofcourse the bill aplies to other companies as well including Sony, for example. I wonder what's going to happen as a result...
 
They will just make their own form of DRM which they will decide is superior to any other form of DRM... that's what the french do.
 
true. but this'll probablly mean that, without a legal and good way to download songs, the french will resort to P2P programs, which kinda defeats the entire point. wonder what the other big companies (i.e. Sony) will do. this means that Sony need to open its ATRAC3 format like Apple has to open its m4p format to rivals.
 
Originally posted by: homestarmy
They will just make their own form of DRM which they will decide is superior to any other form of DRM... that's what the french do.
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Since they are about to pass a law which makes it legal to crack DRM, and already passed one legalizing P2P I'd say the chances of them making their own DRM is pretty much non-existent.
 
They will make new France DRM which is not encrypted, it is just so stinky that when you get close enough, it makes you want to lose the desire to copy.
 
Originally posted by: homestarmy
They will make new France DRM which is not encrypted, it is just so stinky that when you get close enough, it makes you want to lose the desire to copy.
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hahaha
 
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