Yahoo! News has been today reporting that French parliamentarians are hoping to push through a law that could open the iTunes Music Store to anyone and every device or worse close it down completely.

The new law would allow consumers to be able to legally use software to convert content into any format.

It would no longer be illegal to crack digital rights management — the codes that protect music, films and other content — if it is to enable to the conversion from one format to another

The law would allow songs bought from the iTunes Music Store to be freely distributed to any device, but it is widely expected that Apple would simply close the store to prevent such activities.

[Update 1] Yesterday French delegates allowed iTunes to escape French Authors Rights Law, which could have prevented iTunes from operating using DRM in France. However amendments to the bill have allowed distributors to freely associate DRM on music sold online.