Steve Jobs once agreed with France's DRM law

March 24, 2006 | Matt Marshall

You may have heard: France has drafted a law that would require Apple Computer to break open its iTunes music store and iPod players so that rivals can offer compatible services and players.

There has been a lot of hoopla.

But check out what Babak Nivi (a venture capitalist with Bessemer, but who is on temporary assignment helping out Songbird in biz dev) dug up and posted on his blog:

In 2002, Steve Jobs said, “If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.”

In 2006, France said, “The consumer must be able to listen to the music they have bought on no matter what platform.”

Sounds like Steve agrees with France.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.