Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Mar 2006 22:51 UTC
French lawmakers approved an online copyright bill Tuesday that would require Apple to break open the exclusive format behind its market-leading iTunes music store and iPod players. The draft law - which also sets new penalties for music pirates - would force Apple, Sony, and others to share proprietary copy-protection technologies so that rivals can offer compatible services and players. An analyst expects that Apple is more likely to leave the French market, than to open its format in France. My take: Just buy CDs. They play in every CD player, and have no weird restrictions. In case you forgot, CDs look like this.
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Member since:2006-02-18
it's a monopoly because of market share. Doesn't make it an "illegal monopoly." As I said, it got to where it is because of good design, however it is far and away dominating the digital music world, as are iPods. Them being _so_ forces them to operate under different laws...like opening up their closed off DRM mechanism.
What on Earth is there to get a grip about? I know fine well there are lots of DMS outlets. They are all scrambling for the crumbs left behind from iTunes. To make an example perhaps more saliant to this journal, there's lots of OSes in the world, however...
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2005-11-15
iPod/iTunes is NOT a monopoly. Get a grip.