iPod: Apple catches some heat from Europe about its DRM tactics.

[diceone]

Finally someone is saying something about Apples glossy plastic sony methods.

check it:

Already under pressure from several European countries, at least one high ranking official at the European Union has lashed out against Apple's closed iPod/iTunes music ecosystem.
According to German weekly magazine Focus, EU consumer chief Meglena Kuneva is publicly questioning Apple's iTunes: "Do you think it's fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that an iTunes song only plays in an iPod? I don't. Something has to change,"

EU Consumer Protection Commissioner Kuneva was quoted as saying in a preview of an interview to be published on Monday,

- according to Reuters.

[Wally]

Really,

What about Microsoft's System then..

Steve Jobs hates DRM..

Check this out
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

[diceone]

steve jobs maybe, but iPod is Cupertino mostly.
but apple's ipod/itunes thing is DRM and no different than MS.

but... we are in the apple thread here.
... just spreading the news.

[ryanlk]

I think microsoft is behind this!!! c'mon, job, just fight back!