Fear not, Eiswein is actually a German thing as far as I know. Never heard of a French Ice Wine. Not sure where you call home, but the Canadians make some pretty good ones.
http://www.ontariograpes.com/icewine.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_wine
I believe there is some Eiswein made in Alsace (which is part of France). Of course, if you go there you'd never know from the architecture (or culture really) that you're in France and not Germany...
As far as what michel said, that looks like a completely apt analysis to me as well. The entire law sadly now just looks like it's giving the SACEM
exactly what they want. It definitevely criminalizes P2P (completely opposite the original law), and would force Apple to open up FairPlay. The RIAA (and it's European counterparts)
hate Apple's FairPlay DRM because the dominance of the iPod prevents the labels from creating their own iTunes store where
they (and only they) control pricing. They would, of course, quickly move to use their pricing power to "price out" Apple's iTunes Store offerings, afterwhich they could implement the tiered pricing scheme they wanted Apple to implement, and slowly inch-up overall prices.
It's a farce really. It would be nice for JRiver, but really terrible for consumers. I just hope the French Upper House isn't in the RIAA's pockets too. A much more consumer friendly approach is to
simply not ban DRM-circumvention technology! That way, consumers who want to convert their proprietary formats, will be able to create and obtain tools to do so legally. Companies like JRiver can implement the features they want. But most people will keep buying songs online from whatever store offers the most benefit (ease of use, compatibility with hardware/software, and cost). It's also just allowing the free market to solve the consumer protection problem, whereas the French solution is more regulation. Why force Apple to open up the format, when if you need it to open up badly enough, someone will crack it.