Apple Answers EU, This Time Without Open Letter
06.21.07 - 02:49pm
Remember that long ongoing feud between the European Commissions and Apple concerning the interoperability of Apple’s iTunes - not able to play on other devices. Well that got demolished when Apple went DRM free, silencing the original European complaints that went like this.
“What we want from Apple is that they remove the limitations that prevent you from playing a song you download from
iTunes on any player other than an iPod,†said Van Kouwen, a spokesman for the Dutch Consumertenbond. “When you buy a music CD it doesn’t play only on players made by Panasonic. People who download a song from iTunes shouldn’t be bound to an iPod for the rest of their lives.”
Meglana Kuneva, the European Union’s Consumer Chief spoke outright against iTunes and the iPod in an interview saying “â€Do you think it’s fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that an iTunes song only plays in an iPod? I don’t. Something has to change.â€
Since Steve Jobs letter was posted yesterday on the Apple website making a call to end all DRM’s, the outcry among bloggers, music fans and individual artists is - get started on it. The call is that if Jobs is not just looking for good PR, if he is not just looking to pass the buck to record companies, if he is not just looking to get out of the Europe anti-trust lawsuits and fines being currently collaborated - then step up and take some action.
