Ah, this is fun. An anti-DRM group in France known as StopDRM have staged a publicity stunt in Paris which involved persuading policemen to arrest them.
The group are trying to raise awareness of new copyright laws in the country which make it a crime to hack a download platform's DRM - meaning that if you hack an iTunes file so it will work on a non-Apple made music player you are committing a criminal offence. You'll remember that when the French parliament reviewed its copyright laws earlier this year there was lots of media coverage because, for a time, it looked like politicians would severely reduce the ways in which DRM could legally restrict the ways bought content could be used. But in the end, albeit with some exceptions, the law change generally extended to ways DRM could be used by content owners and technology firms.
And it is those rules that StopDRM are campaigning against. The protest involved members declaring publicly that they had transferred iTunes files to non-Apple devices, and then marching to a police station demanding to be arrested for copyright crimes. One protestor, Jerome Martinez, told reporters: "Not only did I not use an iPod to listen to an iTunes song but I transferred the film 'Blade Runner' onto my handheld movie player". Police at the protestors' chosen police station apparently looked quite confused by the whole thing, before finally being persuaded to take the protestors inside to register their respective offences.
The protestors hope that their activity will persuade French consumers to boycott products that rely on restrictive DRMs, like Apple's iPod and iTunes. Doing so would, of course, mean not using some of the most popular digital content devices and services, though if we can rely on anyone to make such a sacrifice as part of a bloody minded campaign on a point of principle, it's the good old French. Whether the aforementioned protestors could face jail for their copyright violation admissions I'm not sure though, if they do, I'm sure Megaman would assure them that such an experience would be blessing in the long run.