The iTunes Escalating European Saga
01.26.07 - 10:16am
Apple has been fighting battles in Europe over iTune’s incompatibility with music players other than the iPod for months now, and forthwith they must fight the Netherlands too.
“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.”
This new complaint from the Netherlands follows Norway’s demand on Monday that Apple must open iTunes to other music devices by the end of September or be taken to court.
The ombudsman from Norway, Bjoern Erik Thon said “”iTunes is imposing unreasonable and unbalanced restrictions that are not in accordance with Norwegian law.”
