This argument about viruses has absolutely no basis since if an OS is not widely used, it simply isn't an attractive commercial target for virus/adware writers.
You develop software. You have run freeBSD and Windows. Why don't you understand the difficulty of getting code to run on each platform.
On one, all you need is a Website, and Email with an attachment, or a Document and very little if any social engineering.
On the other, you need physical access, or a realy good social engineering attack to get a user to change an attachment into an executible file with the privilages to install software.
Pick one.
Windows has zero day attacks that spread like wildfire blown by hot dry winds. Other platforms sometimes gets a slow crawl as a social engineering attack makes some penetration.
Some insecure applications have been used for a *NIX attack such as Samba and Firefox, but not all machines come with these installed by default like the insecure IE and Outlook Express.
This makes me so glad that I run Linux Genuine Advantage instead!
They blew it! They put the source code on the page giving away the crown jewels. From there you can see the source of the remote server and build your own validation server and use the hosts file to redirest to your own validation server. How do they intend to make money with that big IP leak.
Should I tell them? Use this information before they patch it.;-)
The only way out is to not be running any of their software and be able to prove it in court
Do you have a MS optical mouse, natural keyboard, X-box, PDA, etc?
You may have given them permission for the audit because of the shrinkwrap on the firmware. If you go MS free, go all the way. Any MS software including firmware has a EULA. Using a MS optical mouse and not loading the MS driver does not exempt you. Finding a truly MS free business is very hard.
This would of course present problems for audiophiles given the lossy quality of even the best MP3's.
Of the digital music store out there, is there any who offer a higher bitrate than e-music. I know many of the stores are limited to a maximum of 128Kbits/sec.
e-music has VBR.
"The average bit rate used for VBR on eMusic is 192k."
It beats any of the DRM peddlers in quality. Buy the best you can and ask for better.
Then what the seller does is send you a "second chance" email if you are the last bidder saying that the original bidder didn't pay or what not and lets you pay what they were offering for the item.
It's fun to write back and say "No Thanks, I found another one at at better price. Care to match the offer at $xx.00?
I still got the tickets at good prices but a bit more than i really wanted to spend
Set yourself a maximum you are willing to spend. Write it down. Never exceed it in a bidding war.
Shill bidding simply means to me getting it in my price range when they withdraw, or it goes to someone else. If I suspect shill bidding and the last bid is withdrawn frequently on a paticular seller, then I expect the withdraw and withdraw myself, then send the seller a note of my reasons.. Suspected shill competition. Then I no longer bid on that merchant's products.
From real auctions to online, I try to research the items and set a value to me without looking at the expected prices. Then I write down the max I would possibly offer for something and in the auction, I stick to it regardless of frenzied bidding. If someone else wants it worse than I do, I let them have it. It keeps me from overpaying at auctions.
Sometimes I spot a nice item I don't have a need for and sometimes toss in a token bid. That's how I got my punch bowl set with 12 glasses and a silver ladle for $5. I never expected to win the bid, but it was overlooked and I wound up with it.
I don't spend much time on e-bay. I don't win many bids there.
Your definition of non-intrusive is not the same as mine.
You can buy a track online and dump it on your player.
For me to buy a track from the same store, I would have to download some software, register, provide a CC number and information, download tracks, burn tracks to CD, rip CD to MP3's, re-enter ID3 tags, (CDDB doesn't work with DL tracks) and then copy them to my flash player, jukebox, car CF player, etc.
Can we skip the Burn to CD's, Rip from CD's, manualy type in ID3 information steps? I find them very much not non-intrusive. It requires quite a bit of an investment in materials (blank CD's), time, labor, and quality (losses from Burn/Rip & possible typo's).
Please don't tell me to buy one of the DRM format players to fix the intrusive DRM problems. I like my player. It can record off of the radio and mic and it saves the result as a MP3 which can be easly copied off the player and archived.
Most DRM players do not support moving files off the player.
I've ripped most of my CD collection into AAC format using iTunes with no restrictions placed on how I use those files.
The problem is there is no easy way from a drag and drop PC screen to tell the DRM from the non-DRM titles. For me and many others we simply use MP3=non-DRM and wma and AAC = DRM for sorting. It makes life simple. Keep and archive the MP3's and re-rip the rest. Someone forgot to toggle the ripper from a default setting.
UMG has ceased to treat me as a customer. Instead, they have treated me as a potential thief. I have ceased to treat them as something to respect. I could just start downloading UMG content off the 'net out of spite, but I won't, because I won't sink to the level that they expect me to.
Have you bought any blank CD's lately in the USA? There are two types. Data CD's and Audio CD's. Audio CD's have a pre-paid royalty for music to be recorded on them. If I have pre-paid the royalty, where do they expect me to get music to record on them. Certanly not from iTunes. They have a seprate royalty for the privilage.
Return defective products for a replacement or refund. Insist on it. Follow-up. Customer care is an expense of doing business. Defective products are expensive for the retailers. Insist on non-DRM products. Have fun, Go into a shop and look for CD's. Tell the clerk you can only use redbook CD's. Have them show you the CD's. Have them help you find the Philips "Compact Disc" logo. Don't buy anything without it.
I'm hoping enough people car to boycott products and make a statement.
I'm hoping enough people care to migrate to e-music. If enough consumers and artists moved, it can't be blamed on piracy. It's 100% legal. The labels would be forced to follow the money or die.
e-music has no DRM, high quality, lower prices, but limited mainstream music. When the last item picks up then the industry will hear the consumers.
You see, some people might want to read the book at night, under artificial light. Unfortunately, the special ink only shows up under some wavelengths of light, so normal lamps won't work. The publisher can make some more money to help cover the other expenses by selling a special lamp that lets people read it in the dark. It might be a bit unpopular, but no one complains about needing an iPod, Zune, or PlaysForSure player to play the music they bought online while mobile, and the principle's the same.
In the article they left out the fact that you could not read somebody else's book using your light. You would have to also use their light. The priciple's the same.
I have stopped the upgrade treadmill as I have learned from my mistakes. For the younger set who have not had to deal with it, it goes like this.
I had DOS 3.21. Windows came out. I skipped the 3.0 version because it was buggy. I moved up to DOS 6.22, then upgraded to Windows 3.1. Later the biggie came out.. Windows 95. I picked up an upgrade version (the early one without Internet Explorer).
Running on slightly older hardware, things went fine except things just started getting unstable. (normal) After backing up important files to streaming tape, it was time to format and reinstall. 5 hours later I was back up and running. It takes forever with all the required reboots, driver installs, office installs, upgrade installs, IE install (it was seprate) and recovery from backup tape, and entering networking settings and reboots.
After 5 more crashes and rebuilds, I swore off MS upgrades forever. (One laptop of mine for MIDI use is still running Windows 95)
I hope this helps anyone considering the upgrade treadmill. Upgrade by key only. A prior install requirement is a pain and waste of your valuable time.
Sometimes we make mistakes but have to stick with them.
True, but before deciding, evaluate the facts.
Fact, the nice new printer from Dell looks nice, but the ink can not be bought localy, the carts are 1/4 the size of the competetors, and you have to pay S & H to get them. They make no claims to how much ink is in a cartridge or estimated page yield.
Getting the printer was a mistake. Ordering ink for it would have been a second mistake. Kept my old printers instead.
Better to allow known good User-Agents first such as; Google's spider, Yahoo, MSN, a few compatible browsers and then use; User-agent: all Disallow: /
This looks like permitting known compatible spiders and browsers and trying to keep e-mail harvesters out. Now you have a plausable excuse other than tax fraud.
Tax cheats are tax cheats. Now, I don't claim my online poker winnings, but that's because they amount to such a piddlingly small sum each year that it really isn't worth my time.
Pixels are not identical in their dark current and light sensitivity.
For information on correcting these issues which compound in long exposures, find a good astronomy photographers forum. They discuss taking long exposures of various times with the camera capped to identify bright (high dark current) pixels. They use these corrections in their star shots of the same exposure time to subtract out the brightness caused by high dark current pixels. In bright scenes the same thing can be done to correct for low sensitivity (low bright current) pixels. A way out of focus shot of a white screen with primary color filters or lighthing should be able to give you some good sensor correction factor data. Remember that the errors are temprature sensitive so a full correction may be hard to get.
Think about it; if most attacks are relayed through bots, and bots are vulnerable Windows machines, then this kind of effort is only publicizing lists of IPs where vulnerable Windows machines reside.
Not a problem. When 50 or so botnet herders all try to use the same pasture, the overgrazing will kill it off. Problem of zombies is solved as they melt down.
The point here is that there are money-grubbing scientists. It's not just the Republicans any more.
I'm skeptical of anything that breaks the known limits.. Especialy that which is a little shakey on the measurements and make wild clains.
Do a Google search for free enerty. There are mechanical driven water heaters with over unity effeciency, and the well covered hydrogen cell using stainless steel cylinders. It's free power from water or magnets or some other over unity effeciency device.
I'll stick with peer review and repeatability before I bite on these wild claims. Most of the time I look these up to keep up with the latest snake oil investments that need funding and will have a production model in 5-10 years.
I like the water friction water heater and it's over unity claims and the fire department that bought it as scientific proof of it producing more BTU's out then are put in. It's a little lacking on volume of water, temprature rise, Joules in - Joules out.. These are the numbers that have to be carefully and accurately measured and repeated by peers. Until then, it's another snake oil salesman.
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For starters, Gillette don't have much of a choice since there is no standard format for razer blades.
Look up Safety Razor in either the single or double edge variety. Then hunt for as many brands of compatible blades as you possibly can. You can choose stainless steel, high carbon steel, hardened and polished or not, extra sharp or extra strong, etc.
Enjoy. There is a standard format if you wish. It's just like they would like MP3 to just go away as an obsolete format that nobody uses anymore. As soon as they can crush MP3's, support for it on the players will slowly vanish... Hopefully the rejection of DRM will keep MP3 the most popular format for some time to come.
Gillette is doing the "ours is better than the open format" and they hope it will die. It is long from dead. Many devices from box cutters to art supplies to paint scrapers to medical prep tools to shavers use the blades much to Gillette's dismay. They pretend there is no standard format and hope to crowd it off the market as obsolete.
When will they outlaw razor blades that only fit one razor?
Only when they can't buy safery razor blades and double edge razor blades and you have to go to a Gillette. There is a standard razor format still out there. The blades fit box cutters and paint scrapers, art tools, medical tools, as well as razors. You can buy the blades at either the grocery store, drug store, or hardware store. Your other option is to go the single vendor lock-in route. You don't have to pirate blades if you decide not to go with a single vendor solution.
You can't find many online music stores selling a variety of formats for several brands and functions of devices. This is the issue. I can buy several brands of razor blades at any one of the stores to fit my open format razor and can shop for the best brand and price. There is no online store selling competing brands of DRM content compatible with whatever brand of music player you happen to like. There is also no price and quality choices. If you buy online for your iPod, the only choice in the USA is 99 cents a track at the only quality level of 128Kbits. If you have a Zen, you can't buy compatible content for any price. If your device plays MP3's, you are SOL at the iTunes store. It's like having a safety razor and absolutely nobody sold blades for it so you had to rip your own from tin cans. (I know e-music, but try to buy any mainstream music there..)
Here are some examples of safety razor blades to fit your any name and function device that uses safety razor blades..
There are more not listed here.. You can't mix music and players like you can razors. MP3 format works fine, but everyone wants to be the defacto DRM single vendor instead.
Norway isn't asking Apple to take extra steps to interoperate with competitors' hardware, they're asking them to take less steps to prevent interoperability
Step 2 is;
Either open the iPod to another DRM format to work with Norway's online music store, or open the fairplay format for other Norway music vendors to use to sell music to iPod users.
They won't be happy until non-iPod users can buy from iTunes for their device and music vendors can sell DRM'ed content that will play on the iPods.
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This argument about viruses has absolutely no basis since if an OS is not widely used, it simply isn't an attractive commercial target for virus/adware writers.
You develop software. You have run freeBSD and Windows. Why don't you understand the difficulty of getting code to run on each platform.
On one, all you need is a Website, and Email with an attachment, or a Document and very little if any social engineering.
On the other, you need physical access, or a realy good social engineering attack to get a user to change an attachment into an executible file with the privilages to install software.
Pick one.
Windows has zero day attacks that spread like wildfire blown by hot dry winds. Other platforms sometimes gets a slow crawl as a social engineering attack makes some penetration.
Some insecure applications have been used for a *NIX attack such as Samba and Firefox, but not all machines come with these installed by default like the insecure IE and Outlook Express.
This makes me so glad that I run Linux Genuine Advantage instead!
;-)
They blew it! They put the source code on the page giving away the crown jewels. From there you can see the source of the remote server and build your own validation server and use the hosts file to redirest to your own validation server. How do they intend to make money with that big IP leak.
Should I tell them? Use this information before they patch it.
The only way out is to not be running any of their software and be able to prove it in court
Do you have a MS optical mouse, natural keyboard, X-box, PDA, etc?
You may have given them permission for the audit because of the shrinkwrap on the firmware. If you go MS free, go all the way. Any MS software including firmware has a EULA. Using a MS optical mouse and not loading the MS driver does not exempt you. Finding a truly MS free business is very hard.
This would of course present problems for audiophiles given the lossy quality of even the best MP3's.
Of the digital music store out there, is there any who offer a higher bitrate than e-music. I know many of the stores are limited to a maximum of 128Kbits/sec.
e-music has VBR.
"The average bit rate used for VBR on eMusic is 192k."
It beats any of the DRM peddlers in quality. Buy the best you can and ask for better.
Then what the seller does is send you a "second chance" email if you are the last bidder saying that the original bidder didn't pay or what not and lets you pay what they were offering for the item.
It's fun to write back and say "No Thanks, I found another one at at better price. Care to match the offer at $xx.00?
I still got the tickets at good prices but a bit more than i really wanted to spend
Set yourself a maximum you are willing to spend.
Write it down.
Never exceed it in a bidding war.
Shill bidding simply means to me getting it in my price range when they withdraw, or it goes to someone else. If I suspect shill bidding and the last bid is withdrawn frequently on a paticular seller, then I expect the withdraw and withdraw myself, then send the seller a note of my reasons.. Suspected shill competition. Then I no longer bid on that merchant's products.
From real auctions to online, I try to research the items and set a value to me without looking at the expected prices. Then I write down the max I would possibly offer for something and in the auction, I stick to it regardless of frenzied bidding. If someone else wants it worse than I do, I let them have it. It keeps me from overpaying at auctions.
Sometimes I spot a nice item I don't have a need for and sometimes toss in a token bid. That's how I got my punch bowl set with 12 glasses and a silver ladle for $5. I never expected to win the bid, but it was overlooked and I wound up with it.
I don't spend much time on e-bay. I don't win many bids there.
OK a quick google search brought up this..
As with blank consumer music and video tape, in the US, blank music CDs have a mandatory royalty included in their price, as do music CD recorders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_education
To find more, plug into Google... royalty blank music CD
You are welcome.
Your definition of non-intrusive is not the same as mine.
You can buy a track online and dump it on your player.
For me to buy a track from the same store, I would have to download some software, register, provide a CC number and information, download tracks, burn tracks to CD, rip CD to MP3's, re-enter ID3 tags, (CDDB doesn't work with DL tracks) and then copy them to my flash player, jukebox, car CF player, etc.
Can we skip the Burn to CD's, Rip from CD's, manualy type in ID3 information steps? I find them very much not non-intrusive. It requires quite a bit of an investment in materials (blank CD's), time, labor, and quality (losses from Burn/Rip & possible typo's).
Please don't tell me to buy one of the DRM format players to fix the intrusive DRM problems. I like my player. It can record off of the radio and mic and it saves the result as a MP3 which can be easly copied off the player and archived.
Most DRM players do not support moving files off the player.
I've ripped most of my CD collection into AAC format using iTunes with no restrictions placed on how I use those files.
The problem is there is no easy way from a drag and drop PC screen to tell the DRM from the non-DRM titles. For me and many others we simply use MP3=non-DRM and wma and AAC = DRM for sorting. It makes life simple. Keep and archive the MP3's and re-rip the rest. Someone forgot to toggle the ripper from a default setting.
UMG has ceased to treat me as a customer. Instead, they have treated me as a potential thief. I have ceased to treat them as something to respect. I could just start downloading UMG content off the 'net out of spite, but I won't, because I won't sink to the level that they expect me to.
Have you bought any blank CD's lately in the USA? There are two types. Data CD's and Audio CD's. Audio CD's have a pre-paid royalty for music to be recorded on them. If I have pre-paid the royalty, where do they expect me to get music to record on them. Certanly not from iTunes. They have a seprate royalty for the privilage.
Outside the USA your milage may vary.
I have been hosed for being an honest guy.
Return defective products for a replacement or refund. Insist on it. Follow-up. Customer care is an expense of doing business. Defective products are expensive for the retailers. Insist on non-DRM products. Have fun, Go into a shop and look for CD's. Tell the clerk you can only use redbook CD's. Have them show you the CD's. Have them help you find the Philips "Compact Disc" logo. Don't buy anything without it.
There is no right for anybody to be able to purchase a movie without DRM. Nobody's rights are being violated.
True, even the right of first sale. You can sell a DVD and it will play on another player with a few exceptions (region encoding).
Try to sell a few used iTunes tracks. Explain to me again how the right of first sale isn't violated.
I'm hoping enough people car to boycott products and make a statement.
I'm hoping enough people care to migrate to e-music. If enough consumers and artists moved, it can't be blamed on piracy. It's 100% legal. The labels would be forced to follow the money or die.
e-music has no DRM, high quality, lower prices, but limited mainstream music. When the last item picks up then the industry will hear the consumers.
You see, some people might want to read the book at night, under artificial light. Unfortunately, the special ink only shows up under some wavelengths of light, so normal lamps won't work. The publisher can make some more money to help cover the other expenses by selling a special lamp that lets people read it in the dark. It might be a bit unpopular, but no one complains about needing an iPod, Zune, or PlaysForSure player to play the music they bought online while mobile, and the principle's the same.
In the article they left out the fact that you could not read somebody else's book using your light. You would have to also use their light. The priciple's the same.
It is an UPGRADE version.
I have stopped the upgrade treadmill as I have learned from my mistakes. For the younger set who have not had to deal with it, it goes like this.
I had DOS 3.21. Windows came out. I skipped the 3.0 version because it was buggy. I moved up to DOS 6.22, then upgraded to Windows 3.1. Later the biggie came out.. Windows 95. I picked up an upgrade version (the early one without Internet Explorer).
Running on slightly older hardware, things went fine except things just started getting unstable. (normal) After backing up important files to streaming tape, it was time to format and reinstall. 5 hours later I was back up and running. It takes forever with all the required reboots, driver installs, office installs, upgrade installs, IE install (it was seprate) and recovery from backup tape, and entering networking settings and reboots.
After 5 more crashes and rebuilds, I swore off MS upgrades forever. (One laptop of mine for MIDI use is still running Windows 95)
I hope this helps anyone considering the upgrade treadmill. Upgrade by key only. A prior install requirement is a pain and waste of your valuable time.
Sometimes we make mistakes but have to stick with them.
True, but before deciding, evaluate the facts.
Fact, the nice new printer from Dell looks nice, but the ink can not be bought localy, the carts are 1/4 the size of the competetors, and you have to pay S & H to get them. They make no claims to how much ink is in a cartridge or estimated page yield.
Getting the printer was a mistake. Ordering ink for it would have been a second mistake. Kept my old printers instead.
User-agent: TaxSpider /
Disallow:
Clearly an attempt to hide tax fraud.
Better to allow known good User-Agents first such as; Google's spider, Yahoo, MSN, a few compatible browsers and then use;
User-agent: all
Disallow: /
This looks like permitting known compatible spiders and browsers and trying to keep e-mail harvesters out. Now you have a plausable excuse other than tax fraud.
Tax cheats are tax cheats. Now, I don't claim my online poker winnings, but that's because they amount to such a piddlingly small sum each year that it really isn't worth my time.
Is that total winnings or winnings over expences?
Those who gamble don't do the math.
If they did the math, they wouldn't gamble.
Pixels are not identical in their dark current and light sensitivity.
For information on correcting these issues which compound in long exposures, find a good astronomy photographers forum. They discuss taking long exposures of various times with the camera capped to identify bright (high dark current) pixels. They use these corrections in their star shots of the same exposure time to subtract out the brightness caused by high dark current pixels. In bright scenes the same thing can be done to correct for low sensitivity (low bright current) pixels. A way out of focus shot of a white screen with primary color filters or lighthing should be able to give you some good sensor correction factor data. Remember that the errors are temprature sensitive so a full correction may be hard to get.
Think about it; if most attacks are relayed through bots, and bots are vulnerable Windows machines, then this kind of effort is only publicizing lists of IPs where vulnerable Windows machines reside.
Not a problem. When 50 or so botnet herders all try to use the same pasture, the overgrazing will kill it off. Problem of zombies is solved as they melt down.
The point here is that there are money-grubbing scientists. It's not just the Republicans any more.
I'm skeptical of anything that breaks the known limits.. Especialy that which is a little shakey on the measurements and make wild clains.
Do a Google search for free enerty. There are mechanical driven water heaters with over unity effeciency, and the well covered hydrogen cell using stainless steel cylinders. It's free power from water or magnets or some other over unity effeciency device.
I'll stick with peer review and repeatability before I bite on these wild claims. Most of the time I look these up to keep up with the latest snake oil investments that need funding and will have a production model in 5-10 years.
I like the water friction water heater and it's over unity claims and the fire department that bought it as scientific proof of it producing more BTU's out then are put in. It's a little lacking on volume of water, temprature rise, Joules in - Joules out.. These are the numbers that have to be carefully and accurately measured and repeated by peers. Until then, it's another snake oil salesman.
For starters, Gillette don't have much of a choice since there is no standard format for razer blades.
Look up Safety Razor in either the single or double edge variety. Then hunt for as many brands of compatible blades as you possibly can. You can choose stainless steel, high carbon steel, hardened and polished or not, extra sharp or extra strong, etc.
Enjoy. There is a standard format if you wish. It's just like they would like MP3 to just go away as an obsolete format that nobody uses anymore. As soon as they can crush MP3's, support for it on the players will slowly vanish... Hopefully the rejection of DRM will keep MP3 the most popular format for some time to come.
Gillette is doing the "ours is better than the open format" and they hope it will die. It is long from dead. Many devices from box cutters to art supplies to paint scrapers to medical prep tools to shavers use the blades much to Gillette's dismay. They pretend there is no standard format and hope to crowd it off the market as obsolete.
When will they outlaw razor blades that only fit one razor?
- 3-Pack/dp/B0001XGNRK/sr=1-1/qid=1169789189/ref=sr_ 1_1/104-5655065-6533564?ie=UTF8&s=beautyu ct&product_id=19167&category_id=439/ 906451.htm/ E dge.html
Only when they can't buy safery razor blades and double edge razor blades and you have to go to a Gillette. There is a standard razor format still out there. The blades fit box cutters and paint scrapers, art tools, medical tools, as well as razors. You can buy the blades at either the grocery store, drug store, or hardware store. Your other option is to go the single vendor lock-in route. You don't have to pirate blades if you decide not to go with a single vendor solution.
You can't find many online music stores selling a variety of formats for several brands and functions of devices. This is the issue. I can buy several brands of razor blades at any one of the stores to fit my open format razor and can shop for the best brand and price. There is no online store selling competing brands of DRM content compatible with whatever brand of music player you happen to like. There is also no price and quality choices. If you buy online for your iPod, the only choice in the USA is 99 cents a track at the only quality level of 128Kbits. If you have a Zen, you can't buy compatible content for any price. If your device plays MP3's, you are SOL at the iTunes store. It's like having a safety razor and absolutely nobody sold blades for it so you had to rip your own from tin cans. (I know e-music, but try to buy any mainstream music there..)
Here are some examples of safety razor blades to fit your any name and function device that uses safety razor blades..
Mekur brand http://www.amazon.com/Merkur-Double-Safety-Blades
Auto Parts blades
http://www.parts4cars.com.au/cart.php?target=prod
Feather brand
http://www.classicshaving.com/catalog/item/522941
Excel brand
http://www.dickblick.com/itemgroups-r/razorblades
Wilkinson brand
http://www.blademail.co.uk/acatalog/Classic_Twin_
Gem brand
http://www.2spi.com/catalog/tools/smtol14.shtml
There are more not listed here.. You can't mix music and players like you can razors. MP3 format works fine, but everyone wants to be the defacto DRM single vendor instead.
This is step one;
Norway isn't asking Apple to take extra steps to interoperate with competitors' hardware, they're asking them to take less steps to prevent interoperability
Step 2 is;
Either open the iPod to another DRM format to work with Norway's online music store, or open the fairplay format for other Norway music vendors to use to sell music to iPod users.
They won't be happy until non-iPod users can buy from iTunes for their device and music vendors can sell DRM'ed content that will play on the iPods.
This is step one of a two step process