The French Senate has been at it again, on Wednesday the Senate approved a new copyright bill but has amended the previous bill affecting music services such as iTunes, forcing them to open up their DRM.
The amended text in the bill which was approved retains the idea of DRM interoperability but inserts a loophole allowing companies to keep their DRM systems secret.
With the amended bill comes a new regulatory authority, the authority will have power to order companies to share details of their DRM, but companies should be able to refuse as long as the DRM systems only limit usage of content in an approved manner.