Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly

worm eater writes "The Register reports that VirginMega (Virgin Group's online music venture in France) is asking the French antitrust authorities to force Apple to license the FairPlay DRM. If France agrees with Virgin, will this be a blessing in disguise for Apple, making their DRM format the defacto standard, or will it be the downfall of the mighty iTunes Music Store?"

Comments

SJ is kind of a hypocrite

[johnny_sas]

I don't understand this...

He says he won't add MSN support in iChat because it's not an open format.

But then refuses to open up/license the fairplay stuff.

Perhaps he should set the good example by licensing it, or else simply not say anything about what other aren't doing.

Re:iPod needs WMA

[enjoilax]

I agree. Plus WMA is the worst music format out there...