Norway Consumer Group to Sue Apple: Report

DRM can’t catch a break—not that we even feel the slightest bit sorry for it. According to Reuters, a Norway consumer agency said it plans to take Apple to court over what it calls unfair barriers to playing music from the iTunes Store on devices other than the iPod.

The report said that Consumer Ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon hoped other countries would follow the Norwegian example and file their own cases against the U.S. computer giant, in an effort to persuade them to open up the DRM so that it works on other company’s MP3 players.

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