Tag: france

  • How not to implement a carbon tax

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    Tom Raftery
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    The decision by the French government to back down on plans to enact a carbon tax is very disappointing, and not a little puzzling. President Sarkozy initially said plans to introduce a carbon tax were a monumental act of the French Republic — a measure so important President Nicolas Sarkozy ranked it beside “decolonization, election…

  • Plus ça change

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    Tom Raftery
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    According to CNet, it appears that the French have backed down on passing legislation which would have forced Apple to open its DRM if it wanted to continue selling music online in France. The background to this is that all the music which Apple sells online through its iTunes stores has Apple DRM software applied…

  • Interviewed by Matt Cooper of The last Word

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    Tom Raftery
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    I was interviewed this afternoon by Matt Cooper of Today FM’s The Last Word in a follow-up piece to the Irish Blog Awards. Matt raised the recent proposal in France to make it legal to crack DRM – this was reported by Reuters yesterday: France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer…