If modernisation means lawyers everywhere, short-term contracts, war$ for mon€y and oil & stuff like this, I’m happy to live in an old fashioned country :-). No France will never become Florida ! (Sorry if somme Florida people reads this, I’m sure there are cool people there too, I’ve relatives there myself, and they provided me the information about how s**** the mentality is there…)

However, if the governement was indeed anti-iraq war (Because we’re among the only countries that have an independent spying satellite network and therefore knew there were no WMD in Iraq), the CRAP interoperability thing proposed by Paul & Bloche was voted AGAINST the governement’s will and the short term contracts for young folk is also an issue the opponents to our governement made that big.

We’re indeed an original folk.
Remember that when other countries lived under dictatorial kingdoms, we cut our king’s head.

That’s our cultural exception

I can’t simply say how stupid a comment that would be, seeing as most institutions make you work on machine running windows only.

But it will soon be academic as (I predict) soon we will be seeing two insertable chip mp3 players/data copiers. With twin 32GB chips (just announced by Samsung) inserted, one chip with up to 50,000 songs and a second chip for copying the contents of the first chip, up to 50,000 songs or 10 movies.

For a lack of name I call these copying devices the “Twin Pods”.

When these Twin Pod copiers are owned by kids and serious computer users (to backup or distribute data) the copying floodgate will be totally uncontrollable. Everyone will have a chip with 50,000 songs.

Surely there is no way that traditional distribution of digital files has any chance of suvival when one considers that

- Owning infringing copies of anything is not an infringement.
- Only the act of copying and distributing itself is infringement.
- With the Twin Pod there is no need to have a deteactable and raidable manufacturing facility.
- The copying process can be done in shirt pocket, abroad.
- The Twin Pod has many legal uses such a copying and backup of
data, fair use copying, legal distribution, etc.

Surely the Twin Pod is already on drawang bords at Samsung and at China. In time the Twuin Pod idea will be available on cameras and cell phones. Imagine a cell phone with a city’s telephone directory in one chip and 50,000 songs or 5,000 voice recordings on chip number 2!

Of course the Americans (Apple?) could use the screwed up patent registration system to patent the idea, regardless of its obviousness and simplicity and prior use and then not license anyone to use the patented idea or litigate the idea to death, to delay the obvious, the death of for profit digital file distribution as is known at present. Its been done before, the use of the patent system to screw up innovation.

First it was P2P and now is the Twin Pod.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

It is attempting to force digital music suppliers to use DRM systems that are compatable with each other. Apple will do fine. Interoperability will probably be GOOD for Apple’s music biz in France, they are just too pig headed to see it.