Apple answers the French....

[samintx]

from the WSJ:



"......but Apple said the French action will result in "state-sponsored piracy" by encouraging French users to seek out illegally copied music.

"If this happens, legal music sales will plummet just when legitimate alternatives to piracy are winning over customers," Apple said in the statement. "IPod sales will likely increase as users freely load their iPods with 'interoperable' music which cannot be adequately protected. Free movies for iPods should not be far behind in what will rapidly become a state-sponsored culture of piracy," the company said.

Analysts on Tuesday speculated that Apple might simply abandon the French market with its music products rather than comply with a law that could prompt similar efforts by other governments.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment on the company's plans beyond the statement.

The legislation – which also introduces new penalties for music pirates – now has to be debated and voted by the Senate, a process expected to begin in May.

Under the bill, companies would be required to reveal the secrets of hitherto-exclusive copy-protection technologies such as Apple's FairPlay format and the ATRAC3 code used by Sony's Connect store and Walkman players. That could permit consumers for the first time to download music directly to their iPods from stores other than iTunes, or to rival music players from iTunes France."

[wowzer]

Go Apple!


Forget the French.

They hate the US anyways.



Please forgive my rant.

[WHiiP]

IF this remains the case and the law is passed, then I think Apple should pull out of France. Perhaps their might be another kind of revolution then . . .

[macaroo]

F*** the French, those bastards hate the US and all that we stand for.

[SteveJobs]

Plus, I can't understand a THING they say.

[Lux Interior]

It's like they have a different word for everything!

[Sam3]

This is a bad law. There are so many provisions in it that are totally terrible, for example, it does away with Fair Use rights totally, this would ban educational institutions from showing a movie or clips from a movie in class unless that movie has been shown on TV. It does not do awy with DRM, it merely opens the DRM to allow interopability. It allows the ability to stipulate how many copies can legally be generated. That amount could be set to zero, so no backups allowed. Also, the way it's written, it could be used to ban FTP, e-mail an web software, as that can be used to transmit illegally copied entertainment. But even though it bans such copying, it does not lift the surcharge added to CD-R's and DVD-R's to compensate the entertainment industry for losses potentially suffered by copying.

[mick e]

This whole episode has put AAPL in the shidder. The dam french.

[Jimmypoo]

I think they often use the same words we do. For example....

"I give up!" also .....

adieu
agent provocateur
aide-de-camp
à la carte
à la mode
apéritif
à propos
art déco
attaché
au gratin
au jus
au naturel
avant-garde
blonde
bon appétit
bon vivant
bon voyage
brunette
carte blanche
c'est la vie
chaise longue
chargé d'affaires
chic
cinéma
coup de grâce
coup d'éta
crème de la crème
critique
cuisine
cul-de-sac
debutante
déjà vu
double entendre
du jour
eau de toilette
encore
enfant
en garde
en masse
en route
esprit de corps
fait accompli
faux
faux pas
femme fatale
fiancé
fiancé
force majeure
gauche
genre
hors d'oeuvre
idée fixe
je ne sais quoi
joie de vivre
laissez-faire
maître d'
matinée
nom de plume
nom de guerre
nouveau riche
papier mâché
par excellence
pièce de résistance
protégé
raison d'être
rendez-vous
repartee
risqué
rouge
RSVP (Répondez, s'il vous plaît)
sans
savoir-faire
soirée
souvenir
tête-à-tête
toilette
touché
vis-à-vis

[tuqqer]

F*** the French, those bastards hate the US and all that we stand for.

Yeah, and you should see what I have to say about all black people, Germans, and everyone who lives in "the South."