France enacts its controversial, and now watered-down, law as regulators in Scandinavia scrutinize the music service. France’s diluted iTunes plan becomes law But Socialist Party still hopes to revise it, likely forcing copyright-protecting tech to be freely interoperable. August 4, 2006 Norwegian watchdog scrutinizes iTunes DRM Consumer council accuses Apple of unfair practices. Apple says it’s protecting the interests of …

A newly launched peer-to-peer trade association has offered to sit down and negotiate with music industry lawyers, while it simultaneously denounced its adversaries as obsolete and “tyrannosaurical.” P2P United, a group of six peer-to-peer businesses, held a coming-out event Monday in Washington, D.C. The lobbying effort is designed to demonstrate to the U.S. Congress that peer-to-peer companies are legitimate enterprises …

For a few fearful minutes in late 2004, iMesh co-founder Talmon Marco thought Garth Brooks had sunk his company. Marco was in New York, showing off the technology behind the new iMesh peer-to-peer music service slated for release this Tuesday. The software was supposed to identify and block virtually any copyrighted song being downloaded from peer-to-peer networks. But this time, …