Apple faces fresh legal attacks in Europe - by Jack Schofield
"Government consumer protection agencies in Norway and Sweden want Apple to remove restrictions that prevent customers from playing music they bought through iTunes on devices made by other companies. And in Britain, one of the largest digital music markets, the British recording industry's trade association, known as BPI, told a Parliamentary committee on Tuesday that iTunes music should be made compatible with other portable music devices. It was the first time the group had taken a public stance on the issue," reports the International Herald Tribune.
Bjorn Erik Thon, director of the consumers ombudsman's office in Norway, said that he himself had bought a large number of songs from iTunes for about 1 euro apiece, and now wanted to transfer them to his new Nokia N80 cellular phone, but could not.
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