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6 Sep 2024 13:19:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The EU and the "Telecoms Package" directives  
From: somebody
Date: 21 Apr 2009 18:00:29
Message: <49ee41fd$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:49ee0a2d@news.povray.org...

>   For example, if Apple wants to implement DRM in the music they sell
> online so that they will only play on Apple's own iPods, they have the
> full right to do so, don't they? They own the rights to sell the music,
> and they own the rights to their iPods. What rights does anyone else have
> to go and tell Apple that they can't do that? After all, if you don't like
> it, you can go and buy some other mp3 player.
>
>   Well, the European Union disagreed with this view and told Apple to
> lift their DRM from iPod.
>
>   So it's not always that simple, you see?

Nothing is simple. In this case, the complex but obvious observation is that
EU is not infallible.


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