My Way News - Norway Agency Questions Apple Music Move

My Way News - Norway Agency Questions Apple Music Move: "Norway's Consumer Council applauded signs of willingness from Apple Inc. (AAPL) to open its iTunes music store to players other than its iPod, but said Wednesday the company was skirting key issues and passing responsibility to record companies.
Norway is leading a European campaign to force Apple to make its iTunes online store compatible with rivals' digital music players. This month, Norway's consumer regulator declared the lack of interoperability illegal, and gave Apple until Oct. 1 to change it or face legal action and possible fines.
In an open letter on Apple's Web site Tuesday, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said he was ready to open iTunes to players other than iPods if the world's major record labels abandoned their anti-piracy technology.
In the letter called 'Thoughts on Music,' Jobs argued for abolishing the protections known as 'Digital Rights Management,' or DRM, saying that technology was the main reason music sold through iTunes can't be transferred to other portable players.
'We welcome Apple taking this problem seriously, and addressing it at such a high level,' Torgeir Waterhouse, senior adviser to the Consumer Council, told The Associated Press. However, he said Apple was hiding behind the record companies and distorting aspects of the dispute in the letter.
Jobs said consumers unhappy with the current system should push the world's four largest labels - Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, EMI Group PLC, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG) - to sell their online catalogs without the DRM restrictions."