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Reaction officielle d'Apple à la DADVSI.

Apple says proposed French law smacks of piracy
Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:58 PM ET13

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday a proposed French law that would force Apple to make sure that songs bought on its iTunes music store can work on any portable player would result in "state-sponsored piracy."

"The French implementation of the EU Copyright Directive will result in state-sponsored piracy," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. "If this happens, legal music sales will plummet just when legitimate alternatives to piracy are winning ***spam*** customers."

The National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament, passed the law on Tuesday, which French officials said is aimed at preventing any one company from building a grip on the digital online music retail market.

The new legislation would require that online music retailers provide the digital rights management software that protects copyright material to allow the conversion of music in one format to another.

But Apple said the law, which it opposes, would likely actually increase its sales of iPod music players. "iPod sales will likely increase as users freely upload their iPods with 'interoperable' music which cannot be adequately protected," Kerris said. "Free movies for iPods should not be far behind."


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Apple critique la loi française sur les droits d'auteur
mercredi 22 mars 2006 (Reuters - 07:42)

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer a critiqué mardi le projet de loi sur les droits d'auteur dont les députés français viennent d'achever l'examen, estimant que la disposition l'obligeant à rendre la musique vendue sur son site iTunes Music Store compatible avec tous les lecteurs numériques portables favoriserait le piratage.

"L'application par la France de la directive européenne sur le copyright aboutira à du piratage parrainé par l'Etat", a déclaré Natalie Keris, porte-parole du groupe américain, inventeur de l'iPod.

"Si cela se produit, les ventes légales de musique vont s'effondrer alors même que des alternatives légales au piratage commencent à prendre auprès des clients".

Le texte adopté mardi par l'Assemblée nationale prévoit d'obliger les distributeurs en ligne de musique à fournir le logiciel de gestion des droits numériques (DRM) permettant la conversion de l'oeuvre d'un format dans un autre.

Apple, tout en s'opposant à une telle obligation, estime qu'elle aurait pour effet de doper les ventes de son lecteur iPod.

"Les ventes d'iPod vont sans doute augmenter car les utilisateurs pourront librement stocker sur leur iPod de la musique 'interopérable' qui ne pourra pas être protégée correctement", a expliqué Natalie Kerris. "On ne devrait plus être très loin des films gratuits sur iPod."



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[antistress]

je suis pas sûr qu'il gagnent beaucoup d'argent avec l'ipod : ils ont tout à perdre puisque le défaut d'intéropérabilité actuel favorise les prix élevés de vente de musique en ligne qui est leur poule aux oeuf d'or...

pauvre Apple qui va devoir affronter la concurrence...

Sur la musique en ligne où Apple a une position dominante, il réagit exactement comme Microsoft dans les secteurs où le géant de Redmond a une position dominante.

Memes causes, mêmes effets.

Un mauvais point chacun les gars

ajoutons que la directive encourage l'intéropérabilité justement pour des raisons de saine concurrence...

[Shnoulle]

YESSSSSSS !!!!!

Ca pousseras pitete le senat ou le conseil de retirer le projet !


(en espérant que ca ne les pousseras pas à retirer uniquement les amendements sur l'interopérabilté ..... ils en seraient capables ...)

[antistress]

Saint-Chinian, pour info j'ai lié ton topic au mien (v. 5° du 1er post)

[Saint-Chinian, parti]

Saint-Chinian, pour info j'ai lié ton topic au mien (v. 5° du 1er post)

Pas de problème.

[Saint-Chinian, parti]

A lire aussi (en angalis) l'article paru sur wired.com :
sur 2 pages

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,704 ... ture_mac_1

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,704 ... page_next1

How France Is Saving Civilization
Commentary by Leander Kahney | Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Mar, 22, 2006 EST

New legislation in France would force Apple Computer to open the iPod and iTunes to competitors -- and that's a good thing for consumers, in the long run.

On Tuesday, the French parliament passed a law that would require digital content bought at any online store to be playable on any hardware. The law would be applicable to all hardware and service providers, but the immediate impact would be on Apple and iTunes, and may prompt the company to withdraw from France.

To many, France's move seems patently unfair to Apple.

The company created the market for legal music downloads, why shouldn't it dominate it? Why should the French government help competitors like Microsoft or Sony to get a foothold in a market they have proven incapable of competing in? And why should Apple be subject to antimonopoly legislation when rivals like Microsoft traditionally have not? To free marketers, it's government meddling at its worst.

But French legislators aren't just looking at Apple. They're looking ahead to a time when most entertainment is online, a shift with profound consequences for consumers and culture in general. French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers.

"It is unacceptable that  ... the key should be controlled by a monopoly. France is against monopolies," Martin Rogard, an adviser at the French Culture Ministry, told Financial Times. "The consumer must be able to listen to the music they have bought on no matter what platform."

Apple may not qualify as a literal monopoly -- there are lots of ways to get music and buying online accounts for only a small fraction of total music sales. But the sliver it does control it controls almost completely, and it's not out of the question to suggest that this sliver will ultimately become the only way people will buy music in the future.

Apple's head start is not to be dismissed lightly.

The FairPlay copy-protection mechanism in iTunes and the iPod was Hollywood's idea. Apple initially balked at copy protection, but as the iPod and iTunes took off, the company realized FairPlay had an important secondary function: It locked iPod users into the online iTunes Music Store, and iTunes music buyers into the iPod.

This kind of vendor lock-in is a time-honored business practice in the tech industry, and is the exact same tactic successfully employed by Microsoft to build an illegal monopoly in desktop computers.

It's early days yet, and this may be premature, but Apple may become the Microsoft of the digital entertainment era.

Music and movies are fast transforming from the old analog formats to new digital ones. Every sale of a big plasma TV or music download is another step toward the digital entertainment future when all music and movies are routed through PCs or PC-like appliances like a TiVo box.

Apple's iTunes and its underlying QuickTime software is already popular, and with every iPod sale, the software is installed on another computer, usually a Windows machine. Each installation is a beachhead that allows Apple to route around Microsoft's desktop monopoly -- and the living room monopoly of the cable TV providers.

Apple has several toes in the living room door, but the most intriguing play could be the Mac mini -- the little box refreshed a few weeks ago with Intel chips. The mini would be a perfect living room media box, some say, if only it could record and play back TV shows like a TiVo or one of Microsoft's Media Center PCs.

In fact, Apple may be one step ahead. Why would the mini need to record TV shows when it can be used to go online and order them from the iTunes Music Store instead?

Already the iTunes store has dozens of popular TV shows and, as of last week, its first full-length movie. So Apple, more so than any other company I can think of, is poised to extend its proprietary digital rights management to a whole new category of media -- on-demand video downloads.

Surely, this is the model of TV in the future. Shows are made available when the consumer wants to watch them, rather than on a rigid, inflexible broadcast schedule.

It's already happening. I'm a Comcast subscriber, and I no longer tape The Sopranos or Deadwood because I can get them on demand, whenever I like, through my cable box/DVR.

It's easy and convenient, and it saves on hard-drive space, but there are definite downsides: I can't save the shows, nor can I easily load them onto a laptop to watch on a plane or burn them to DVD for archiving. Most of the shows are unavailable after the season concludes.

These restrictions are purposeful, of course, and not just to protect against digital piracy. HBO doesn't want these shows on BitTorrent, but it also doesn't want them recorded at home because this would harm DVD sales, a very big part of the TV business.

So it may be convenient for me to get shows on demand, but this comes at a price. My TV is tied intimately to the Comcast DVR box I rent, and I lose some of my consumer rights (saving shows, watching them on a different device) so that the entertainment industry can protect its old business models.

Enter Apple, which may soon strike deals with the TV networks and video production houses that will see hundreds of TV shows, documentaries, music videos and so on, hosted on an iTunes music and movie store -- accessed only though Apple's software or hardware, like the Mac mini.

If such a scenario comes true, Apple will become more and more powerful as the gatekeeper to this content. And it will behave like every other big, powerful global corporation -- as a predatory monopoly.

There are few Mac users prepared to argue that Microsoft's monopoly in desktop PCs has been a good thing for the technology industry; why would an Apple monopoly of digital entertainment be any different?

Vive la France.
©wired.com

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[Saint-Chinian, parti]

Lire aussi l'article du Financial Times daté du 20 mars:

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/95233eee-b83a- ... e2340.html

France drafts copyright law to open up iTunes
By Tom Braithwaite in Paris

Published: March 20 2006 18:06 | Last updated: March 20 2006 18:06

Apple Computer could on Tuesday be forced to open up its digital music business to competitors after a vote in the French parliament.

The owner of iTunes, the online music store, and the iPod digital music player, will have to choose between making downloaded music compatible with rival platforms or pulling out of France if, as expected, the parliament in Paris approves a draft copyright law.

Software in digital downloads from iTunes prevents music being played by any rival to the popular iPod, but the French bill seeks to impose “interoperability” on online music stores and break Apple’s closed system.

“It is unacceptable that . . . the key should be controlled by a monopoly. France is against monopolies,” said Martin Rogard, an adviser at the French Culture Ministry. “The consumer must be able to listen to the music they have bought on no matter what platform.”

Mr Rogard said it was “desirable” that France led in this respect, but hoped that it was the start of a Europe-wide move to open up digital music.

Competitors such as Sony and Microsoft would also have to comply with the legislation, but some rivals see it as a chance to break Apple’s grip on the online music market. Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, has said that 3m songs a day are sold on iTunes. The website has more than 70 per cent of paid digital downloads in some markets.

“The French seem to be leading the way in being a little bit more anarchic and taking a stand,” said Rudy Tambala, head of Virgin Digital, a UK-based online music store. “[Apple made] a smart move. They’ve created the market and they’ve dominated it.”

However, others in the IT industry said forcing Apple to admit competitors to a new market it was instrumental in creating sent the wrong signal to technology companies. CompTIA, a trade association, said the law was the latest in a series of measures in the European Union that were “punishing inventors and stifling innovation”.

The draft copyright law, which implements an EU directive on intellectual property, has already been the source of controversy. Record companies and artists were enraged last year when an ad hoc coalition of MPs succeeded in pushing through a parliamentary amendment that legalised peer-to-peer file-sharing.

The government overturned the amendment but has bowed to pressure from consumers groups to open up the market for digital music. The government has also reduced the fines for illegally downloading music to a mere €38 ($46, £26).

Apple said it was waiting for the law to be passed before making any comment.

©ft.com

PS :
J'espère que vous avez noté la réponse de Martin Rogard, en tant que conseiller du Ministre de la Culture.
Vous savez, Martin Rogard est le fils de Pascal Rogard de la SACD.
(Pascal Rogard est le Directeur Général de la Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, - qui regroupe les auteurs d'oeuvres cinématographiques et audiovisuelles, ainsi que les auteurs de spectacles vivant - )...

[Laza]

A lire aussi (en angalis) l'article paru sur wired.com :
sur 2 pages

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,704 ... ture_mac_1

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,704 ... page_next1



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En résumé :
Dans quelques années Apple fera comme microsoft (vente liée) donc c'est bien de s'en appercevoir assez tôt et de bloquer le phénomène à temps.
(en gros)

[Saint-Chinian, parti]

En résumé :
Dans quelques années Apple fera comme microsoft (vente liée) donc c'est bien de s'en appercevoir assez tôt et de bloquer le phénomène à temps.
(en gros)

Ca c'est de l'interprètation, que tu nous fait là, ce n'est pas de la traduction même "en gros") !

[noir_desir]

un résumé d'une ligne, est ce que l'interoperabilité du texte est bonne