iLlegal iTunes:
Ourway or Norway?
After months of discussion about copylefting and legal-music, which was getting rather cold, Norway gets its new and biting statement: iTunes will be legal no more. As MSNBC says:
Apple was dealt a blow in Europe on Wednesday when Norway’s powerful consumer ombudsman ruled that its iTunes online music store was illegal because it did not allow downloaded songs to be played on rival technology companies’ devices.
To me it sounds like reasonable solution to the causa between Apple and Norway and it should be exemplary for other countries. Why should we allow such creepy behaviour like buying music which could be played only on devices manufactured by the seller himself? It’s like if you could wash your new clothes only with washing-mashine distributed by the same company. What a nonsense!
I hope this act will ignite the debate about DRM again.
Digital World adds:
Apple has until October 1 to open up Fairplay to other companies, or face fines and the threat of iTunes being closed down in Norway. Since the first option is about as likely as Satan skating to work, Apple’s only choice in the long run — assuming endless legal wrangling fails — will be to close iTunes in Norway, and possibly other European countries.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/digitalworld/
archives/2007/01/norway_outlaws.html
March 18th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
You are kidding, right? Why should anyone FORBID you selling t-shirts, that can only be washed in your special t-shirt optimized washing machines? Let the customers decide.
There are a lot of companies selling music /yahoo, microsoft, …/ and a lot of companies selling music players /creative labs, iriver, …/, the market is as open as you could wish. Any political regulations concerning music sales (do not forget how many of them are out already) can only worsen things out.
March 30th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Oh, the dictionary used is a bit exaggerated, I am not keen of political regulations and forbiddances - but you say “let te customer decide” - how can he decide, if there is no other option to wash his smelly tee? Oh yes, he CAN CHOOSE the player in general, but its a bit unfair… I wouldn’t forbid selling that t-shirts, but I would try to force the company to play fair. In general, I don’t like the music sales haggle at all :o) but this topic is too hot for me to embrace it all. In Norway - if they don’t like iTunes behavior that much, this statement is the only solution to this causa.
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