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Mar 18 2006

French to Force iTunes to Work on Third-Party Portables

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French parliamentarians finished drafting a law on Friday that would open up Apple Computer’s market-leading iTunes online music store to portable music players other than its popular iPods.

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  1. CrashPeer44 - March 18, 2006 at 8:24 am

    So does this mean the files sold to the French HAVE to me unprotected? Or we gunna see some universal DRM in the future(Hope Not)

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  2. WE_DELIVER - March 18, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    Good for them.

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