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Antony
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 25 Jan, 2007 11:42 pm Norway says iTunes Store is illegal. |
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MSNBC and iTWire have this story.
A report from MSNBC and the Financial Times says that Norway is the first country to make iTunes illegal because the songs it sells can’t be played on other mp3 players.
| MSNBC wrote: |  The decision is the first time any jurisdiction has concluded iTunes breaks its consumer protection laws and could prompt other European countries to review the situation.
The ombudsman has set a deadline of October 1 for the Apple to make its codes available to other technology companies so that it abides by Norwegian law. If it fails to do so, it will be taken to court, fined and eventually closed down. |
Australia's iTWire said it nicely
Governments should be very careful about mandating that a company make its proprietary system open for all to use, otherwise why will businesses take the chance to develop new products and services if the Government can just come along and change the rules on you?
Remembering Apple’s reaction when the French tried to do the same, Apple threatened to pull out of the French market entirely. Thankfully, sense prevailed in the French legislature at the time, although the Europeans are still trying to put together some kind of unified stance against Apple.
For more detail, please refer to http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8948/53/ and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16793043/
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Antony
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| 03 Apr, 2007 10:46 am |
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Following EMI's announcement on DRM-free and even higher-quality songs on iTunes Store , senior advisor Torgeir Waterhouse of the Norwegian Consumer Council immediately came forward to applaud the move. "It's with great interest [that] I've listened to the webcast from EMI & Apple today," Waterhouse told MacNN. "No matter how the digital music market develops, today will always stand out a very important date, the day when two of the really big market players finally took responsibility that follows from the position and made an interoperable solution available to consumers."
news: Norwegian official applauds Apple, EMI (MacNN, 2nd April)
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