“The French Competition Council has dismissed a case brought by Virgin’s French arm against Apple Computer for alleged abuse of market dominance,” Estelle Dumout reports for CNET News. “French download site Virginmega.fr wanted to force Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to lift the lid on its digital rights management (DRM) technology in order to allow Virgin to make its downloads compatible with the iPod music player.”

“Due to a lack of ‘sufficiently convincing elements,’ the council said it rejected Virgin’s case and call for action. Its members noted that ‘access to the Fairplay DRM isn’t indispensable to the development of legal platforms for the downloading of online music,’” Dumout reports.

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