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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?"
Virgins!?! Apples!?!? It's all sounding very biblical to me. Leave it up to the Big Man to decide.
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Burns: Excellent! My secret plan to "reluctantly" license FairPlay DRM is coming along quite nicely, don't you think Smithers?
Smithers: But sir, won't we lose our exclusivity?
Burns: Smithers, you bumbling idiot. They may be able to license our DRM, but they'll pay, ooohh, yes, they'll pay...
...of a music company accusing anyone of being an unfair monopoly. And, just to double your irony goodness...accusing Apple.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Apple did not abuse monopoly because they are not the M$. Only the M$ abuses monopoly! Why you ask? Because M$ is bad. Every company could do what the M% does but only when the M$ does it shall it be bad. Therefore Apple did not abuse anything, only the M$ did. Thank you.
I like to send in replies to job applications telling them how there curent site is badly designed, refering them to standards,
accessability documentation &co and asking them to make sure that anyone they hire has xyz skills (e.g. CSS).
I try not to mention things like 'firefox' or 'linux' in these emails unless it is a particular problem, just industry standards.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
This just shows that DRM, while being so vilely derided on slashdot, can actually be used for evil, as well as for evil.
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Let me get this straight. Virgin, (a memeber of the RIAA, right?) is accusing Apple of being a MONOPLY?
Man, I couldn't write a better joke if I tried. Hey Virgim, how do you like them apples...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
...litigate!
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Why am I envisioning some nymph getting upset with a piece of fruit about a damn boardgame?
Considering the title, I was expecting something like this:
Ok, I'll stop now.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
I think you mispelled "eh"...
Thats funny..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
There's obviously a typo in the headline. It should read "Virgin Accuses Microsoft of Abusing Monopoly". This is Slashdot, people, get it right!
I don't have any mod points, so I'll just agree with you. Flash cards are ideal storage for players: multiple 512MB ones should be sufficient. As soon as they work with Ogg Vorbis and don't cost as much as a 2nd hand car, I'll buy one.
I think it's funny that a company called VirginMega is suing a company for being a monopoly. "Globex MegaCorp PanGalactic Enterprises is being harmed by Frank's PC Haus monopoly on the computer service business in Saginaw, Michigan. We are suing!"
I bet the French government will back Virgin just 'cause Apple's DRM wasn't programmed in French or something.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Apple started as A & B and has dabbled in C, but IMS is solidy B & C.
Dunno, FairPlay seems more like S&M to me.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
No, no, no... This is an election year. Don't you realize that your 'vote' for Firefox, Mozilla, Opera is a wasted vote. Your one voice doesn't matter. You must choose the lesser evil, let your browser ID as IE, just so you can participate. Or better yet, just don't browse at all until everyone supports your broweser of choice.
Man that headline would have been much cooler if Apple had chosen Cherry for its corporate name instead.
What happens if Virgin drops the whole "Apple=monopoly" thing and instead chooses to simply license the Harmony hack from realplayer in order to get their music onto iPods?
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
virgin music has released product before. it is no longer a virgin. apple should countersue to have them change their name to "slut entertainment" since they are obviously selling their wares for money.
that'll teach 'em.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?