After you purchase media from the iTunes Store, you can download it onto up to 10 devices, five of which can be personal computers. To prevent downloading content to more than 10 devices, Apple requires you to authorize the devices by associating them with your iTunes account. You can burn a song to CD no more than seven times, and you cannot sell or otherwise redistribute content that you download from iTunes. Movies and TV shows in the iTunes Store are protected with digital rights management software; you cannot burn these media files to disc.
Although the iTunes Store contains hundreds of thousands of songs, music by several prominent artists is not legally available from the service. The Beatles famously came to iTunes at last in November 2010. However, some other major artists, including AC/DC, Garth Brooks, Tool and Def Leppard have not, as of June 2011, made their catalogs legally downloadable from iTunes. Any songs on iTunes that are supposedly by these artists are in fact cover or tribute versions.
While Apple owns the rights to all the music and video content in the iTunes Store, applications containing illegal content have occasionally slipped into the apps section of the Store. For example, the BBC's Russian Service has reported that certain iPhone apps available from iTunes have illegally repackaged copyrighted movies as downloadable applications. Apple does, however, endeavor to remove any illegal material from the iTunes store as soon as possible.
In 2007, the government of Norway declared that the iTunes Store itself was illegal. The consumer protection administrator ruled that because the FairPlay digital rights management software that Apple used at the time prevented music from playing on non-Apple devices, the iTunes Store violated the country's antitrust laws. Apple has since removed FairPlay protection from most content in the iTunes store.