“Apple has replied to criticism of its iTunes digital rights management policy, meeting a deadline set by consumer agencies in Scandinavia, an advisor at Norway’s Consumer Council said on Tuesday,” Nancy Gohring reports for Macworld UK. “The Norwegian council is still reviewing the letter, which arrived on Tuesday morning, and hasn’t yet released it to the public, said Torgeir Waterhouse, senior advisor to the Consumer Council of Norway.”

Gohring reports, “The contents of the letter could determine the future of the iTunes music store in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. ‘If they won’t change anything, we’ll most probably have to take them to the court in Sweden,’ said Bjorn Smith, a spokesman for the Swedish Consumer Agency, a state organisation that represents consumer interests. He hasn’t yet seen the letter from Apple.”

“The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman was the first to file a complaint with Apple, asking the company to change some of the terms of agreement in its iTunes music store and to defend its DRM (digital rights management) policy. Consumer rights agencies in Denmark and Sweden quickly followed suit. The groups asked Apple to reply to their complaints by August 1,” Gohring reports.

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