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Norway Outlaws iTunes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the run-out-of-town dept.

haddieman notes that while many people are getting more and more annoyed at DRM, Norway actually did something about it. The PC World article explains: "Good intentions, questionable execution. European legislators have been giving DRM considerable attention for a while, but Norway has actually gone so far as to declare that Apple's iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law. The crux of the issue is that the Fairplay DRM that is at the heart of the iTunes/iPod universe doesn't work with anything else, meaning that if you want access to the cast iTunes library, you have to buy an iPod."

3 of 930 comments (clear)

  1. Re:My Talk With Richard Stallman About This by mrchaotica · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's not true at all - anyone who wants to can make a player...

    Oh? So you mean I can go write myself a program to decrypt and play PlaysForSure media on my Linux or Macintosh computer? Without having to bend over and hand all my rights (and license fees) to Microsoft?

    Yeah, you're completely wrong. Shut the fuck up.

    --

    "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  2. Re:Good! by perbu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    DRM'ed music is ~crap. You are allowed to buy crap. But crap that locks you into a certain vendor of crap is illegal - especially when the vendor have such a high market share. Thats the case.

  3. Re:Questionable reporting by Slashdot by -noefordeg- · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    God lord...
    You are so right!
    There is nothing more to this case. You summed up everyghing.
    I agree. "Case closed"
    Too bad no one listened to you.

    I'm looking forward to more comments from you on other things which matters.