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Ars Technica reports that the country's largest telco TDC and supermarket Maersk - both of whom operate online music services - have urged Denmark to follow France and introduce legislation that ensures DRM interoperability. This is reported in the Danish-language Politiken.dk newspaper.

Such legislation isn't specifically levelled at Apple, but it would mean that the company would either have to make music on iTunes available in formats that can be used by music players other than the iPod or stop operating in that country.

Brian Mikkelsen, Denmark's Minister of Culture responded that legislation to sort out the DRM issue would be introduced next year, and believed that such a move would find support from major music publishers as a means of making legal music more popular.

Apple has characterised France's decision, which is still pending approval, as tantamount to 'state-sponsored piracy'.