Tunes, Apple's digital media player - and its associated iTunes Store - has been ruled illegal by the consumer electronics ombudsman in Norway. Other influential European organisations and countries are following suit.

Apple uses a proprietary encryption technology, ironically called FairPlay, that prevents songs downloaded from the iTunes store from playing in non-iTunes enabled players, which would include everything (Zune, local players or Windows Media Player) except Apple computers, iPods and soon, the iPhone and Apple TV. ... more