France surrenders on DRM law
A French select committee has decided to gut a law which would have protected users from DRM and forced Apple to licence its Fairplay technology.
The law being looked at by the select committee would have forced technology companies to make their DRM schemes interoperable. Now the wording of the law has been tinkered with so that interoperability is nearly impossible. It also now protects DRM publishers from seeing their source code printed online.
Read the full story (The Inquirer)
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