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Apple Responds to Norway’s iTunes Claims
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 3:00 PM - by Brad Cook
Apple has rejected claims by Norway's Consumer Council, which says that the iTunes Music Store violates the country's consumer laws by not allowing songs sold through it to play on anything other than an iPod. According to a Financial Times report, the company released a letter to Norway's Ombudsman arbitrator in which it said the practice was "not unfair."
However, the letter, large portions of which were blacked out by the company on the basis of the industrial secrets it contained, also admits that Apple "should clarify the situation in its marketing," reporters David Ibison and Tobias Buck wrote.
Torgeir Waterhouse, a senior adviser to the Norwegian Consumer Council, told the reporters: "Our position is that this is a tool to lock consumers into their products. This is just the start of a long struggle. We are at the beginning of a booming digital market and if we don't win this one then we won't be able to achieve a fair marketplace."
Apple now faces fines and the possible closure of the Scandanavian iTunes Music Store if Norway, which has the backing of Denmark and Sweden, finds it guilty of breaking the law.
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