Re: [videoblogging] French Against iTunes Store

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:50:29 -0800

Hello,



On 3/22/06, Kunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it just me? I don't quite get what France is trying to do. You can
burn songs you download from the iTunes Store to a CD and then rip
for any player. So why are they claiming that Apple's Store and the
iPod are a closed system? This seems like mostly a technological
ignorance than a real "argument". Even NBC reported this morning that
songs you buy at the iTunes Store "can only be played on an iPod"
which is simply not the truth. What's up with this journalistic/
legislative failure to understand and report/legislate based on the
facts?

Apple could take away your ability to "rip and burn" songs onto CD's at any time.  And if they do do so, then this "DRM legislation" becomes very important.

(Some have conjectured that it is Apple's plan to eventually do this -- to eventually take away the ability to burn iTunes songs on CD's -- once iTunes becomes "popular enough".)

 

If France outlaws the iTunes Store, it will also hurt us if Apple
doesn't separate all the free podcasts from what they have for sale
that is mis-perceived as only playable on iPods.

I don't think they are outlawing it.  I think they are making it so they have to "open up" the "FairPlay" technology.  (Which Apple might choose not to do and just leave the French market.)
 

See ya


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