Back in the bad days of digital rights management in the a-la-carte download space, those of us who opposed DRM and all it stood for liked it when European governments starting accusing the record companies and download firms of acting against the consumer by employing technology that locked them to certain devices or download stores.
So we liked it when the Norwegian authorities said they were investigating whether Apple's iTunes should be allowed to lock users to the iPod device through the DRM on tracks it sold.
But with DRM now dropped from most a-la-carte music services, and with iTunes having negotiated new deals with the majors to let them sell tracks without DRM, such investigations seem a bit pointless.
Which is presumably why Norwegian regulators have announced they are dropping its anti-competitive and anti-consumer investigations into Apple and its music services. A spokesman, Bjoern Erik Thon, told AFP: "We have no reason to pursue them anymore".