February 7, 2009 by James Oliver
When an entire country wants to take you to court, you know it might be time to start re thinking some of your policies. This is essentially the situation in which Apple found themself in 2006 after their iTunes DRM (Digital Rights Management) software angered the Norweigen authorities so much that they decided to file a legal complaint.
As we reported recently, Apple have given up their DRM software for iTunes and are now allowing songs to be downloaded in standard MP3 format, which means there is now less restriction on what you can do with the songs you buy, i.e., burn them as many times as you want, move them to different music programmes, etc. Though they’d never admit it, this decision was largely due to sheer weight of public opinion against the policy including the legal complaint lodged by the nation of Norway.
With the policy now history, Norway’s legal complaint is essentially irrelevant and Norway have this week dropped the complaint. The question is, why has it taken so long for them to do so?
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