![]() The law, if enacted, could prompt Apple to shut its iTunes store in France, some industry observers say, to keep from making songs vulnerable to conversion outside France, too. Music downloaded from Apple’s iTunes online music store currently can be played only on iPods. “It will force some proprietary systems to be opened up…You have to be able to download content and play it on any device,” Vanneste told Reuters in a telephone interview Monday. It would no longer be illegal to crack digital rights management–the codes that protect music, films and other content–if it is to enable the conversion from one format to another, said Christian Vanneste, Rapporteur, a senior parliamentarian who helps guide law in France. Under a draft law expected to be voted on in parliament on Thursday (March 16), consumers would be able to legally use software that converts digital content into any format. France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker’s popular iPod player.
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