France is looking to enact a law forcing Apple to open up the iTMS.
“It will force some proprietary systems to be opened up…You have to be able to download content and play it on any device,” Vanneste told Reuters in a telephone interview Monday.
Music downloaded from Apple’s iTunes online music store currently can be played only on iPods.
The law, if enacted, could prompt Apple to shut its iTunes store in France, some industry observers say, to keep from making songs vulnerable to conversion outside France, too.
This is likely to be really popular with French people. Rather than opening up the iTunes Music Store, it’s likely they’ll simply lose the ability to purchase from it all together. Good plan (yes, I am laying the sarcasm on thick).
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