Leading lawmakers have agreed to water down a draft law that could have threatened the future of the iPod in France.
The National Assembly voted in March to force companies like Apple Computer to make their online music stores and players compatible with rival products, but key members say they have agreed to many of the weaker measures endorsed by senators.
The draft adopted by the Assembly had contained a blanket demand that companies share their exclusive copy-protection technologies with rivals, effectively free of charge.
But the compromise text, due to be approved Thursday by a committee of legislators from both houses, maintains a Senate loophole that could allow Apple and others to sidestep that requirement by striking new deals with record labels and artists.
EDITORS NOTE: Nice to see France continuing it’s long tradition of “bending” to other peoples will. 
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