Beawulf Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 France to force apple to provide DRM source This is a very interesting development. I'm glad to see that someone is fighting for consumers rights to use purchaced products as they see fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steveo Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 They pull out of France and the bad press won't help apple any. I can see it - "Apple acts to protect it's stranglehold on MP3 rights" etc etc. I don't usually agree with a French policy, but go France this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 What France really should do is push for the EU to adopt this. That would be a laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steveo Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I don't think apple would be happy, but it would be good if it became a directive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Lol i love this story and it just get better Heres Apples response I hope it goes thru it seems another european country other than Sweden is thinking hold on it isnt as bad as all that surely! I agree with Tenebrae here this should become european law it cant be right to control music in a way that restricts access to other countries music is universal ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Apple actually uses the MP4 wrapper with AAC encoded audio, so it's not even MP3 at all. In addition to using a format that isn't supported by any other portable music player (most support MP3 and/or WMA, and a few support OGG), Apple puts a DRM wrapper on every download, so they can only be played on an iPod. Doesn't that sound like a monopoly to you? They control everything from the production (of the digital recording) down to the only way to play them. What France wants to do is give the power back to the consumer. I have an older MP3 player that doesn't support any kind of DRM at all. With iTunes, or any other download service, I can't play anything. France wants to make it legal for me to re-encode those DRM'd files to a format that I can use. They are giving consumers the right to Fair Use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrovirus Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Doesn't that sound like a monopoly to you? They control everything from the production (of the digital recording) down to the only way to play them. What France wants to do is give the power back to the consumer. I agree. iTunes seems to be one of the only recognised legal downloading system. Having the files only being able to play on the iPod is just another way of saying 'you're screwed if you don't buy our rather expensive and generally-thought trendy merchendise to play the music you want to hear'. I think this is great news for France. This will probably lead to a new type of legal music downloading service which can be used for all formats. Seeing as no-one will be using the iTunes format if these news legislations go through with our government, I wouldn't be surprised if apple left here altogether - why buy an iPod when you have to go through all the trouble converting the file again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 heck i though the ipod was a mp3 player... thats just plain lame.... *patting the frech on the back* good to some one still got balls *whilst giving evil cuts (eye contact) to blair* at least your thinking of the people's rights!! *raising an eyebrow at bush...* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I could be wrong here but arnt monoply kinda... sorta... not legal... uhmm I will give kudos to the French. The past year they have shown that they actualy have some balls. I mean threating to nuke terrorist nations, taking American bussnies empires to court... they are "A OK" with me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Just when did they threaten to "nuke terrorist nations" again? And just which nations are wholly composed of terrorists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Just when did they threaten to "nuke terrorist nations" again? And just which nations are wholly composed of terrorists? you dont remember that giant thread about it? Jac Chirac threatened to nuke terrorist nations that where agressive towards france. But that is off topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hmm, totally missed that. To be honest, it's pretty hilarious they are doing this because while they're trying to pass this - people are striking at economic reforms that might allow people to *gasp* be fired! Frakking socialists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrovirus Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hmm, totally missed that. To be honest, it's pretty hilarious they are doing this because while they're trying to pass this - people are striking at economic reforms that might allow people to *gasp* be fired! Tell me about it. Life's being pretty crazy over here at the moment. For the last two days we've been off school because all around France there have been protests and strikes (as usual) about this new law, which allows trainee employees a kind of 'test period' to have a minimum of two years to prove to their boss that they're not bad at their job compared to the two months you get at the moment. So basically, if you're rubbish at your job after two years, you're fired and you have to spend a while looking for a new job in a similar area of experitise, where your new employer will ask you why you got chucked out from your old job. But it's a good excuse to have a strike ;-) . Our school has been blockaded for the last few days. Students have put those huge recycling containers for bottles and such infront of the teachers' car park entrances, and blooked all other entrances with wire mesh, furniture, and basicallly anything strong enough they can find. Some guys even put silicon in the locks of the front doors. But hey, this is France! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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