Introduction:
Digital Rights Management , what a term !
Digital Rights Management is the term being used for companies to take control of your computer and drive it in the roads they want you to go !
Event :
French Parilament is Currently Discussing the DRM scheme :
If France bans device-specific digital music and video downloads, companies like Apple would presumably need to alter technology to allow content from Web sites to play on competitive devices. This movement toward interoperability could eventually become global, and could loosen Apple's stranglehold on the digital music player market.
Story :
In an interview last week with the International Herald Tribune, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the French minister of culture, said: "I have absolutely nothing against iTunes, and this is not some payback or protectionism against a foreign company."
He continued, "We are simply defining a fundamental value and principle that I believe will be demanded by Internet users and consumers."
InterOperability : Music Playing Programs Shuold Be Able To Play The Songs
Industry sources speculated that the proposed regulation, if enacted, might force Apple to cease digital music sales in France, or STOP its "digital rights management" scheme of encoding music in such a way that only Apple iPods can play the songs and music it puts in its iTunes website.
If the two houses of the French Parliament stand with the rights of the people of France, then the U.S. Commerce Department will back Apple Computer Inc. in the dispute that will be a good story to follow.
Comment:
Apple Computer Inc. is rotten and very rotten indeeed. It is technology was one day good, not any more, and the reason is simple : GREED
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