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Sucre Blu! France says no to DRM

March 20, 2006 by in Tech with 3 Comments

The people of France have spoken and they want to protect the freedom of choice on song and video downloads from the Internet.

This could be bad news for Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which have for the most part locked consumers into their own downloading systems with proprietary anti-piracy software.

The French parliament is set to vote early this week on a new law that would allow consumers to legally circumvent existing software that protects copyrighted material.

So, this then will free DVD’s, AAC, WMA files. The potential impact of this law is HUGE!


  • http://beszeljukmac.com dombi

    What is the source of this?

    The following report says something different:
    http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/03/16/itunes.escapes.french.drm/

  • http://www.mgroves.com boohiss

    Free as in speech, not as in beer. It’s still illegal to download something you don’t own.

    Additionally, if this is “bad news” for MS and Apple as you are implying, it’s entirely possible that they would just stop selling to the French completely. Then who is it bad news for?

    P.S. I think you mean “sacre bleu” unless you are doing some sort of French play on words or something that completely escapes me.

  • fernyb

    Maybe companies are going to stop doing business in france?

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