Norway pressures Apple to ditch iTunes DRM

Norway’s top consumer advocate said today that he will ask a government court to force Apple Inc. to open the iTunes music store to users who own music players other than the iPod.”It’s a consumer’s right to transfer and play digital content bought and downloaded from the Internet to the music device he himself chooses to use,” said Bjorn Erik Thon, Norway’s consumer ombudsman. “ITunes makes this impossible or at least difficult, and hence they act in breach of Norwegian law.”
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Norway’s top consumer advocate announced the start of legal action Monday to try to force Apple Inc. to open its iTunes music store to digital players other than its own market-leading iPod.Norway has led a two-year European campaign, backed by Finland, Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands, to allow all music downloaded from the iTunes system to work on rival music players.
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