Dave Horvath
12 Jun 2006 6:14
The company with probably the largest market share in portable mp3 players, Apple has come under fire from Swedish lawmakers for their stand on DRM. Apple has been well documented to place DRM restrictions on music downloaded via iTunes into the much loved iPod, thereby cancelling any hopes by consumers for listening to their legally purchased music on any other device.
Scandanavian laws conflict with the Apple terms of service contracts, iTMS, in which Apple is clearly committing illegal activity in the countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden by forcing it's users to abide by it's DRM standards.
Swedish Consumer Agency spokeswoman Marianne Aabyhammar said "iTunes' terms and conditions are illegal in all three countries. If iTunes fails to improve its terms and conditions in Sweden, we may take the case to Sweden's market court."
Apple still refuses to allow users to convert their music files into any other format, thus enabling the music to be played on anything other than Apple products. Currently, Scandanavian law dictates that a user can lawfully break this DRM encryption for fair use purposes.
Source:
Yahoo News