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2006/3/17-20 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:42300 Activity:moderate
3/17    France weighs forcing iPods to interoperate.
        http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/technology/17ipod.html
        \_ How the hell can they "force" apple to do anything?
           In fact, could the american government even force
           such a nonsense requirement? Can't apple just give
           france the big F you and not agree?
           \_ Did you read the article?  "My gut feeling is that Apple
              will simply pull out of France if these amendments get
              through,"
           \_ And France says "OK, then you may not sell music in
              France."  Which would be pretty dumb, but I suspect that is
              what is going to happen.
           \_ Apple could, but they probably want to keep doing business
              in France. Congress could probably force Apple to open up
              as well under the Commerce Clause.
        \_ i am not too worried.  French didn't do jack shit with
           Microsoft
        \_ Couldn't Apple do something like "OK, French ITMS users can now
           buy WMA files for 2 euro each."  Now ITMS customers can play their
           music anywhere and almost nothing changed.  For bonus points, make
           the WMA files non-burnable and non-transferrable to other computers.
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