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AFP via Engadget. Hopefully the pressure building among European legislators will force Apple to reconsider its business model to some degree and deal a blow to DRM in general.

Denmark, Norway and Sweden plan to force Apple Computers Inc to break the exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store.

The three Scandinavian countries have decided to take iTunes to their respective government mediators, or ombudsmen.

At present, the only portable players able to play files downloaded form iTunes are Apple’s own iPods.

Like someone said over at Engadget, the “OSX on a PC” argument is just plain defunct, lazy, apologetic thinking, and there is nothing silly whatsoever about Europe pursuing this matter. On the contrary, it shows that on some level, the legislative system at least appears to favour the people rather than act on every whim of transnational corporations (insert classic Heinlein quote here). And on a technical level of course, this sort of frivolous balkanization can never be tolerated.