French Efforts To Open Apple’s DRM Will Have Little International Effect
The media is going gaga over proposed French legislation that would force Apple to open its priority DRM software to others. Siting interoperability issues that are certainly slowing the march towards digital domination, the French are certainly onto something. But we at Hypebot is not going to waste a lot of space on this story. Why, you ask?
Apple will pull out of the French market faster than a pig chasing truffles rather than change their business model.
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Quite wrong.
I find it unlikely that Apple will pull out either.
The law does not actually require Apple to disclose anything. The news stories are quite often leaving out some subtle, but important nuances.
Read about it at my blog if you like.
My response
Quite wrong.
I find it unlikely that Apple will pull out either.
The law does not actually require Apple to disclose anything. The news stories are quite often leaving out some subtle, but important nuances.
Read about it at my blog if you like.
My response
You miss the entire point.
The law says, if the DRM is not shared, then anybody can hack and strip the DRM away.
That means Apple is naked. Anybody can download the entire catalog and strip Apple DRM and post it in a French database. There is nothing Apple can do about it.
And the rest of the planet just download it from that french database.
(ie. If the DRM break and not protected by law in any single market, then Apple entire business model is broken. The entire global market, not just.)