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I believe that Apple are wrong in this case. Personally I've no real interest in buying iTunes/ipod, but what does concern me is that this monopoly will eventually cause the demise of physical music stores/CD's and then I have bugger all choice but to give in. Apple will never license their Fairplay DRM to third parties because the bulk of their income comes from selling iPod's not the songs themselves. You could argue that the loss of iPod sales could be offset by the licensing fees to third parties, but Apple tried that with MacOS and got burned. Thet won't repeat that mistake. However, the fact that it happens to be the French taking a stand against an American company is not entirely surprising. If Apple were a large French company, we probably wouldn't hear a word from them. However the French do have a history of protecting their "culture" and having lived in the U.S. for some time, where town after town consists of strip malls & fast food joints, you have to say that it's something worth protecting. BTW - please do not take my statement above as a personal attack on the U.S/Americans. I loved my time over there. It's just a pity that franchises seem to have turned every town into a spooky clone of every other town. -- oreillymj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22423 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
