{"id":548540,"date":"2006-04-18T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548540-itunes-must-play-fair.html"},"modified":"2006-04-18T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T07:04:06","slug":"itunes-must-play-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548540-itunes-must-play-fair.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;ITunes must play fair&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Lagarde&#8217;s remarks came during a talk with reporters in San Francisco one day after meeting with Silicon Valley executives, top Stanford University officials, and French entrepreneurs living here. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Lagarde met with Charles Phillips of Oracle Corp., John Chambers of Cisco Systems, and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, but met no Apple Computer Inc. executives. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>A copyright bill before the French parliament on downloading music and films could lead the leading online music store, Apple&#8217;s iTunes, to leave France since it would oppose opening up its proprietary system, experts believe. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Apple Computer Inc. has always refused to allow its paid-for music files downloaded via iTunes to be converted into another format, which would allow them to be listened to on a music player other than its iPod. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>But French lawmakers last month adopted two amendments insisting on &quot;interoperability,&quot; which would permit an Internet user to copy and read downloaded files on a service of his choice. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;It should come as no surprise,&quot; Lagarde said when asked what she might say of the matter to Jobs if given the chance. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Any time a company restricts competition in a market, it gets the attention of regulating agencies. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;We have to play by the rules of the game,&quot; she said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>France and its millions of iPod using teenagers were too valuable a market for Apple to pull out of, Lagarde said.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0 <br \/><em>INet-Bridge<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Computer Inc. should have expected the exclusive union of its iPod music players and its online iTunes store to be challenged in France, Trade Minister Christine Lagarde said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}