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iPod avoids guillotine in France
CNET's Estelle Dumout and Jo Best are covering the French anti-iPod law gyrations: France's controversial copyright law, which had threatened to mandate interoperability between Apple Computer and rival online music players' digital rights management, has been dealt a major setback as sections of the legislation are being ruled unconstitutional.
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CNET's Estelle Dumout and Jo Best are covering the French anti-iPod law gyrations:
France's controversial copyright law, which had threatened to mandate interoperability between Apple Computer and rival online music players' digital rights management, has been dealt a major setback as sections of the legislation are being ruled unconstitutional.
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The Dadvsi Law, as it's called, has flipped-flopped on the legality of file sharing and fines for reverse-engineering DRM so many times that it's doomed.
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