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MacDailyNews —
... said Wednesday it had dropped a complaint against Apple's iTunes after the company said songs sold via its music service would be compatible with all MP3 players, not just the iPod," AFP reports. "'We have no reason to pursue them anymore,' consumer mediator Bjoern Erik Thon told AFP." Apple "announced on January 6 that as of April all iTunes songs would be free of anti-piracy digital rights management (DRM) software that prevents music from being copied," AFP reports. Full article here [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "HMCIV" for the heads up.] ...
News: Norway consumer advocate drops iTunes complaint
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... , Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman Bjorn Erik Thon has said he is dropping a complaint against iTunes before the company’s Market Council, due to Apple’s ...
Norway drops complaint against Apple’s iTunes
MacDailyNews —
... said Wednesday it had dropped a complaint against Apple's iTunes after the company said songs sold via its music service would be compatible with all MP3 players, not just the iPod," AFP reports. "'We have no reason to pursue them anymore,' consumer mediator Bjoern Erik Thon told AFP." Apple "announced on January 6 that as of April all iTunes songs would be free of anti-piracy digital rights management (DRM) software that prevents music from being copied," AFP reports. Full article here [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "HMCIV" for the heads up.] ...
Apple, iTunes Off the Hook in Norway
iPodObserver —
Now that Apple is expanding the number of songs at the iTunes Store without copy protection, Norway's Consumer Council will drop its complaint against the company. Norway regulators had alleged that the digital rights management code in music sold at the iTunes Store violated the country's laws. Consumer Ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon said that the change at the iTunes Store means "We have no reason to pursue them anymore," according to AFP . Apple announced in January that it had struck a deal with record labels to remove the copy restrictions from music sold at its online media ...
Norway Drops DRM Complaint Against Apple
Cult of Mac —
... Norway, which had threatened to take Apple to court over its copy-protection of songs purchased through iTunes, announced Wednesday it was dropping its complaint.
“We have no reason to pursue them anymore,” Norway mediator Bjorn Erik Thon told AFP.
Norway had threatened to haul Cupertino into court over restrictions that blocked songs purchased through iTunes being copied to portable music devices other than Apple’s iPod.
Along with Norway, France and Germany joined the fight to force Apple to ditch DRM. The battle ...
Ceasefire called in Norway's battle over iTunes for non-iPods
Betanews —
... February 5, 2009, 11:53 AM Norwegian Ombudsman Bjorn Erik Thon Yesterday, Norway's PMP interoperability champion, Consumer Ombudsman Bjørn Erik Thon, said there is no reason to continue his fight against Apple now that iTunes is DRM-free. Thon called January 6 an " ...
M&M’s World Headlines: Feb 6, 2009
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... bandwidth gets new caps The Register
More Americans will soon be fitted with bandwidth caps. Yesterday, Time Warner trumpeted plans to expand its “consumption based billing” brainstorm beyond the tiny Gulf Coast town of Beaumont, Texas and into a few other unnamed cities. And just hours later, fellow cableco Charter Communications confirmed it will soon put caps on users across the country.
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Norway drops complaint against Apple’s iTunes AFP
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Norway Drops Apple iTunes Complaint
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... technology by April. The software, which is used for copyright protection, prevented music bought from iTunes from being played easily on other portable media players. "We have no reason to pursue them anymore," Thon told the French news agency AFP. Thon had said he would take Apple to Norway's Market Council, a government agency that can fine companies and order them to change their business practices. Apple in January ...
Norway Drops Apple iTunes Complaint
TechWeb —
... technology by April. The software, which is used for copyright protection, prevented music bought from iTunes from being played easily on other portable media players. "We have no reason to pursue them anymore," Thon told the French news agency AFP. Thon had said he would take Apple to Norway's Market Council, a government agency that can fine companies and order them to change their business practices. Apple in January ...
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