Apple's "ability to delete purchased songs purchased by another company from iPod" is sued for antitrust violation

ByDan Diemer

Apple had deleted songs downloaded from other companies' services other than iTunes from the iPod without notifying the user from 2007 to 2009Antitrust methodA lawsuit seeking Apple for $ 350 million (about 41.92 billion yen) began, saying it violated the Antimonopoly Act.

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According to Patrick Kooglyn, a representative lawyer who filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against Apple, when syncing with iTunes with Apple's iPod with songs from other companies on the iPod, between 2007 and 2009, an error message It was said that it was displayed. Restoring iPod Once you have instructed you to return to factory defaults, if you re-insert songs from the iTunes library, songs from other companies' services will be deleted.

Plaintiffs allege that they did not intentionally warn the user of songs being deleted or intentionally forced the user to pay extra expense for the iPod and claimed damages against Apple as damages of 3 We are claiming 50 million dollars (about 41.92 billion yen). If it violates the Antimonopoly Act, the amount of compensation can be tripled and there is a possibility.

ByOskar karlin

In response, Augustin Farzia, head of the security department of Apple, said that since there were hackers who tried to break through "very paranoidly" against copy protection that had been placed on iTunes songs, Deleting songs that have not been done is claiming that it was "a valid security measure" to protect users by preventing system intrusions. The reason there was no warning was "to not confuse users".

In addition, Apple is planning to submit Steve Jobs' testimonial video showing hacking damage at the time, and Edi Que, head of iTunes, said, "There was a fatal flaw in the iTunes Store at that time, malicious With a hacker with it, I was able to bring out my favorite songs from the iTunes Store. "Explain. DRM protection of songs of iTunes is "necessary evil", saving unprotected songs on iPod is "risky for both Apple and users", as a result of deletion of songs from other companies' service as a result It was said that it was taking.

ByLeo Lambertini

The judgment of the case will be announced around 10 December 2014 (local time).