26.1.07

Tora the law breaker!

As it turns out, our favourite viking pixie is a criminal. In fact, *anyone* in Norway that uses iTunes is actually using illegal software.

"European legislators have been giving DRM considerable attention for a while, but Norway has actually gone so far as to declare that Apple's iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law. The crux of the issue is that the Fairplay DRM that is at the heart of the iTunes/iPod universe doesn't work with anything else, meaning that if you want access to the cast iTunes library, you have to buy an iPod." Story here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dang.

Does this mean I have to continue downloading music illegally?

(writing this from my dads place, to protect my own IP of being tracked)

Tora said...

I deny everything!