Sir, It may be true that "French law threatens iTunes business" as Tom Braithwaite reports (March, 22), but sometimes the intrusion of legislators into business models that limit consumers rights may have a reason. The so-called "Digital Rights Management" enforces a regime that has been designed to protect the rights controlling access to software, music, movies, or other digital data, but not those of the purchaser. Fighting piracy cannot be the only argument to take into consideration while "controlling" the way in which we do business over the Net.
If one invokes the market as a self-regulating force that should be left alone, one should also take into consideration that it is a means and not an end that we are talking about. And the end here is consumers satisfaction at the lowest costs.
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