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EU warns online music stores: change or be changed
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| EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has warned the music industry that
| she is prepared to take action to ensure a competitive online marketplace
| across member states, especially for digital music sales.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20729/1054/
"Monopoly raises two classes of problems for a free society. First, the
existence of monopoly means a limitation on voluntary exchange through a
reduction in the alternatives available to individuals. Second, the existence
of monopoly raises the issue of “social responsibility”, as it has come to be
called, of the monopolist."
--Milton Friedman
Recent:
What if Apple stopped issuing DRM keys?
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| It happened to Microsoft and Yahoo. Could it happen to Apple?
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| Microsoft's now defunct MSN Music service made a similar announcement last
| spring. Some CNET News readers have asked whether the same thing could happen
| at iTunes. The answer to that question is yes, it most certainly could.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10004255-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
iTunes Store back online in China after Tibet song leaves front page
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| The iTunes Store was blocked in China two weeks after an album released by
| Tibet activists appeared, but after the Olympics Games concluded, it was
| available once again.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13908_3-10027395-59.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Apple breaks price promise on UK
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| WHEN APPLE PROMISED six months ago to equalise the cost of Itunes download
| throughout Europe, the chaps in the accounts department at Cupertino were
| probably thinking they had a long round of tough negotiations with records
| labels and artists ahead of them.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/15/apple-breaks-price-promise-uk
http://tinyurl.com/68ha36
UK iTunes shelves music price cut
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| Apple has scrapped plans to cut the price of music downloads on its iTunes
| service in the UK.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7507100.stm
Apple Sues Mac Clone Maker Psystar
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| Apple has finally lost patience with Mac clone maker Psystar and is suing the
| Florida-based company in a federal district court. According to the blog of
| lawyer Jorge Espinosa Apple filed the lawsuit July 3 alleging Psystar is
| engaging in "shrink wrap license, trademark and copyright infringement."
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007281.html
Apple retail fiasco
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| It turns out, after talking to some employees, that some Best Buy managers
| don't believe that people really want Macs -- even though this store had
| almost no stock - and so they only order in a minimal number and set up these
| idiot no reservation rules.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/apple_retail_fiasco
Related:
Apple defends iTunes in Berlin, Brussels
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| The Commission charged in April that Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony
| BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Group and Warner Music Group were forcing Apple
| to curtail cross-border access to iTunes.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6208959.html
After Big Win in Microsoft Case, EU Sets Sights on iTunes
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| An EU spokesman also blamed the record labels, two of which are owned by
| European companies, for this situation. He told the WSJ in April that
| regulators considered Apple to be more a victim than a culprit. “This is an
| arrangement imposed on Apple by the record companies,” the spokesman
| said. “The main focus of our attention is the major record companies.”
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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/17/after-big-win-in-microsoft-case-eu-sets-sights-on-itunes/?mod=yahoo_hs
http://tinyurl.com/2jj57a
Why DRM's best friend might just be Apple Inc.
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| DRM is dying. It's a statement being echoed with increasing frequency
| around the Web over the last few weeks, and is perhaps best articulated
| in this Billboard article. Antony Bruno lays out his case for why 2007
| will be the year that the major labels "get it" and stop alienating
| their customers with restrictive DRM schemes.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070111-8595.html
Democratic bill could force Apple, AT&T to unlock iPhone
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| When T-Mobile began selling Apple's iPhone in Germany last fall, a legal
| skirmish ensued, forcing the wireless carrier to sell it untethered to a
| contract--at $1,460, no less. T-Mobile eventually persuaded a court that the
| two-year contract was legal.
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| Now that same kind of European rule would be imported into the United
| States--meaning AT&T would be legally required to sell a contract-free
| iPhone--if a new Democratic proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives
| becomes law.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879554-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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