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ITMS Faces Complaint From Norwegian Ombudsman
Whiney Mac Fanboy writes "Following the French Bill that threatened Apple's iTunes service in France, the iTunes music store is facing more uncertainty in Scandinavia. According to a report in Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, Norway's Consumer Ombudsman has filed a complaint with Apple's music download sales service iTunes, arguing that the transaction terms violate Norwegian law. The Register is also reporting this story:, saying a contract cannot be regulated by English law, rather than Norwegian law, so iTunes must accept responsibility for damage its software may do, and said it is unreasonable to alter terms and conditions after a song has been sold. Consumer Council told the Reg: 'The Consumer Council has asked Apple to respond as to whether iTunes should work on other platforms - they have until 21 June to respond. After that the Ombudsman is likely to set another deadline and then start fining the company.' The BPI (Britain's RIAA equivalent) has also called upon Apple to license Fairplay."
Apple being fair?
Have we all forgotten what put them on the map?
Oh, that couldn't have been the raping of Xeros PARC.
Interoperability doesn't exist in Apple's vocabulary - while MONOPOLY does exist in Apple's vocab in spades. And it's not about money (Apple is now worth $ 60,777,591,440 - that's 60 billion plus!).
It's not about the artists ( who get 3 cents for every tune sold on iTune, while Apple gets 50 cents for every tune sold - lets see Apple makes approximately 16 times what the artist makes - and how many hours did Apple spend writing the songs and then sitting in a studio.....).
It's all about control freaks. Apple is still NOT interoperable even when it comes to MEPG-4 video.
Apple could be turned around in a week - if and when all the "iAddicts" started complaining
Score 15!!.