Comments on: France backs down on iTunes DRM stance

Proposed legislation to require Apple, others to license their copyright protection technology is watered down.

[robot999]

Sore Losers!

"But the rules have to be the same for everybody...The rules can't
favor one country."
This is typical of an attitude that totally discounts the FACT that
Apple actually innovated and produced a product that the whole
world wants...in a big, big way. Typical Socialist attitude of
equalism and free lunch!
Disgusting...

[skeptik]

Apple did what?

Innovated? As in they invented the MP3 format, the MP3 player or the MP3 download? Check your facts please.

[billlgates]

Shouldn't that be....

France surrenders to iTunes.

That would be more in line with their history...

[skeptik]

typical french posturing

Hey they started out good... big declarations that sounded consumer friendly; like a breath of fresh air in this world of DRM insanity.
Now we find out it's nothing but the typical French nationalism - rejection of anything not French.
Hey France, you haven't been a fist class world player for a couple hundred years. Get over it. you had a chance to be a world leader here and you're blowing it.

iTunes is not "Apple Exclusive"

What galls me most about all of these stories is that the writers
insist on dispensing incorrect or misleading information. For
example:

"iTunes files downloaded through Apple's music service are
protected by the company's FairPlay DRM technology, designed
to play exclusively on Apple devices such as the iPod."

Is not only incorrect, it's misleading. iTunes and the iTunes
Music Store, as well as iPods work with both Apple Macintosh
computers and machines sold by virtually every other vendor
that run Microsoft Windows Operating System. You don't need
an iPod to use iTunes, or the iTunes Music Store - all you need is
a computer that runs either Mac OSX or MS Windows 2000 or XP
SP3.

Since when is a Dell running XP an "Apple device?"