France: Apple-Eating Monopoly Busters

France's upper and lower houses, the Senate and the National Assembly, have voted in favour of a bill that forces Apple to open up music bought from its online store so that it can be played on personal music players other than its own iPod. The bill might also affect Sony and Microsoft who can be now be forced to share their proprietory DRM systems.

Apple has previously threatened to withdraw from the French market calling the law "a state-sponsored culture of piracy".