Good Morning Silicon Valley reviews the French legislative steps to open up the iPod and iTunes bought tracks to interoperability.
Om Malik's opinion:
I find the French desire to get rid of DRM absolutely ridiculous. It impacts Apple and iPod the most, because of their market share. Wired’s Leander Kahney thinks French decision is a good thing, because there is an iLock-in with iPod and iTunes store. To average joe, that iLock-in means - it just works. The iLock-in is really iConvenience.
As always, things are actually much more complex than (the media coverage). Actually, the whole issue is extremely complex. On one hand, you have the music industry and its software allies (Microsoft, Apple and DRM manufacturers) willing to make DRM-cracking illegal, calling downloaders thieves (or worse), and on the other hand, you have consumers, libraries and Open Source developers who fight DRM as they understand that they would hurt them in one way or another.
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