Apple may be forced to spill its iTunes beans as per a new French law. Apple at present dominates the online digital music market and providing the facility only to Apple iPods.
The law aims at loosing the grip of any single media-playing operating system on the digital online music retail market and to break the monopoly. Apple will be forced, according to the legislation, to provide iTunes codes i.e. Digital Rights Management (DRM).
France’s new copyright law states:
Any interested party can ask the court ... to get a supplier (of content) ... to provide information that is essential for ‘interoperability’.In the wake of events even if Apple shuts down its iTunes store in France, it would have no effect on sales which contribute to less than5 per cent of Apple’s revenue.
Via: The Age
