Anonymous

devon

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This is mostly nonsense. Music is available in many formats. iTunes downloads go to a Mac or PC; they can be written to a CD, and imported back free of DRM if you want to transfer them to a non-fairplay player, or simply bought on CD in the first place. Playsforsure downloads require you to have Microsoft Windows (no Mac or Linux), and to have a tethered Playsforsure player that checks in regularly to keep the music alive.

Apple doesn't own the music, it merely resells licences. If the publishers want to open the Apple licence, they, not Apple, can simply announce a licence extension. This shows they don't actually want to open the licence, but to cripple it (because Apple would then have to renegotiate).

Apple can resell a better licence because their proprietary system gives the publishers better protection. The music biz supports opening the licence by force, so they can change the licence terms to the end user's disadvantage.

As to the English language thing, if contracts written in another language cannot be enforced in Nordic countries, then many more than just Apple will disable access from Nordic countries.