France is one step closer to signing an Anti-DRM bill
Basically what this is, In France, It will become ileagal for any online music store to incorperate any form of DRM and must allow the music that they buy to be able to play on any competitors devices. If this bill gets pass in France, Theres a chance that Apple will not comply with this new piece of legislation and close down there France Itunes Music Store entirely. You can read this whole article here, This is really interesting. I'm sure most of you dont buy music from Itunes, But I found it quite interesting since we all hate DRM.
Originally posted by UWM
How can France be anti-DJRaveMonkey
Cause we be some backward ass peoples'
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Mar-21-2006 22:56
TigerClaw
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I think I'm all for this, I hate how companies try to monopolize and forcing people to use a piece of bloated software just to listen to the music they buy
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Denver, CO, United States
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Originally posted by TigerClaw
I think I'm all for this, I hate how companies try to monopolize and forcing people to use a piece of bloated software just to listen to the music they buy
+9million
Mar-21-2006 23:03
Nabistai
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So what does DRM stand for exactly? (I'm sure there will be several shit answers first, so I'll check later for the real answer)
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Originally posted by TigerClaw
I think I'm all for this, I hate how companies try to monopolize and forcing people to use a piece of bloated software just to listen to the music they buy
couldnt have said it better myself
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Mar-21-2006 23:20
Clovis
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally posted by TigerClaw
I think I'm all for this, I hate how companies try to monopolize and forcing people to use a piece of bloated software just to listen to the music they buy
I would have to wholeheartedly agree there Mr Tigerpaw
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Mar-21-2006 23:28
Sunsnail
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neat
Mar-22-2006 01:34
jdat
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You failed to mention that this is part of a bigger law being passed that has repeatedly been passed and then revoted and rediscussed and basically a mess from the french politics.
Back in december downloading copyrighted material was made completely legal is it was for use in private only and if you paid a monthly licensing fee of 7 euros ( 8 bucks 50 ) but that has now been dropped.
Basically they are trying to forbid illegal p2p, ftp newsgroups even potentially podcasts and blogs, it will also be ( or already is ) to severely penalize and fine people who design software which would "blatently" facilitate the spread of copyrighted material ( think Bittorrent and emule clients etc ).
Fines costs have already been decided:
downloading copyrighted material 38Euros 45 dollars
uploading copyrighted material 150Euros 181 dollars
using a program that would allow you to crack a Drm ( to make personal copies or to watch a dvd under linux ) 750 Euros 906 Dollars
hacking a drm 3750 Euros 4535 Dollars
making software that would allow to share and download illegal copyrighted content 300 000 Euros 362706 Dollars
These figures and these rules are changing daily right now as it's still kind of being voted on.
