Apple DRM supporters, UNITE!
p2p news / p2pnet: “The DMCA makes DRM far too strong, but the French proposal renders it nearly useless. Individuals ought to have control over their media, but digital-music vendors like Apple ought to be allowed to protect and control their property.”
So says Peter Suderman in a contradictory National Review Op-Ed on France’s New Revolution which is, he believes, as bad as the last one.
“Vive la (digital) revolution!” he declares.
Indeed.
“Individuals ought to have control over their media …”
Doesn’t that mean people should be allowed to do what they want with iTunes downloads they’ve bought and paid (through the nose) for?
Steve Jobs is intensely angry because French legislators voted 296-to-193 vote in favor of a new copyright law which’ll nullify Apple’s C.R.A.P., compelling it to disclose information to allow third-party applications to play iTunes songs. As things stand, iTunes are for iPods alone.
“To no one`s surprise, the French have taken the exact opposite approach to DRM as the U.S,” Suderman states. “Where their mistake is attempting to legislate DRM into uselessness, the U.S. erred in the other direction by giving DRM the force of federal law.”
Meanwhile, the DGA (Directors Guild of America) also has a few thoughts on the fact France wants Apple to turn its DRM (digital rights monopoly) into DRR (digital rights respect).
DGA president Michael Apted, “has expressed support of four French authors-rights organizations that are fighting legislation to legalize peer-to-peer downloading, the union said Monday,” according to BackStage.
The DGA, “shares the organizations’ concerns about the possible negative effects of legalized P2P downloading in France”.
“Can directors survive when their films are exploited in ways that rob them of their livelihood?” – Apted wonders. “Will producers invest in work that risks being mass distributed before it even reaches the screen? But if filmmaking goes into decline, it won’t only be us who are the losers but the culture and society that is the source of our inspiration.”
The DGA has, “joined with the French organizations in trying to preserve films for future generation and to protect the rights of directors and others who create the films”.
(Thanks, Brian)
Also See:
National Review – France’s New Revolution, April 11, 2006
intensely angry – Apple: foiled in France, March 28, 2006
Apple’s C.R.A.P. - Tired of C.R.A.P.?, March 14, 2006
BackStage – DGA President Supports Fighting P2P, April 11, 2006
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
‘The DGA has, “joined with the French organizations in trying to preserve films for future generation and to protect the rights of directors and others who create the films”.’
They are only interested in protecting the obscene amounts of cash they make.