Digital music stores that use DRM would have to provide software ...
Digital music stores that use DRM would have to provide software codes to allow their tracks to be converted into other formats, under a bill approved Tues. in France’s National Assembly, Reuters reported. “These clauses, which we hope will…
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be taken up by other countries, notably at the European level, should prevent the emergence of a monopoly in the supply of online culture,” said National Assembly deputies Richard Cazenave and Bernard Carayon from the ruling UMP party. The legislation also lets consumers use software to circumvent DRM, but only to convert between formats. The change to copyright law would most directly affect Apple, whose iTunes Music Store was largely developed to spur iPod sales. The Senate will take up the legislation in May.