Way to go, Norway!

The Consumer Council of Norway is taking on iTunes, and it's great to see someone finally standing up for the consumer. The full article is here, but here is my favourite quote:

iTunes can change the your rights to the music
after you downloaded it. This is a violation of
basic Principles of consumer contract law.
Consumers who wants to play they're music
on a non-iPod player must first remove the copy
protection, this removal for legitimate private use
is however stopped buy iTunes DRM technology
and Terms of Use. iTunes stopping this removal
for legitimate private use like playing the music
on a non-iPod mp3 player is obviously in violation
of the Copyright Act.

I know the law may not be the same in other countries, but it's certainly an encouraging move. And the fact that " The Consumer Council of Norway considers the iTunes terms to be part of an ongoing development where the consumers rights are weakened" is really encouraging - someone with some authority is seeing where this is heading and is trying to stop it.