http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/11/french-senate-passes-watered-down-drm-bill/ Engadget Comments for French Senate passes watered down DRM bill http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/11/french-senate-passes-watered-down-drm-bill/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/11/french-senate-passes-watered-down-drm-bill/
Open sourcing it is obviously a bad idea, but simply requiring Apple to license Fairplay is not a bad idea.

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]]>May 12th 2006 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/11/french-senate-passes-watered-down-drm-bill/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/11/french-senate-passes-watered-down-drm-bill/#4: Almost as soon as Apple/Microsoft/Intel releases some sort of DRM software/hardware expect to see some app made by some disgruntled programmer to emerge that will do that for you

My opinion is that Apple and the other manufacturers are not concerned with compatibility, they care about profits, if they can force you to buy 5 different formats of the same album/song then all the better for them. If you cant play it on your specific iPod or mp3 player thats _your_ problem not theirs. As far as they are concerned you should have bought their media player because it supports their formats. Apple will convince all the copyright holders to support them because it means more of your money goes into their pockets.
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They have probably already forgotten all about what they were protesting about anyway. I am sure they have moved on to protest burger king, or imported cheese, or deodorant companies or something.]]>May 12th 2006 9:28AM