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Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly

Posted by michael on from the turnabout-on-fairplay dept.

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?"

7 of 394 comments (clear)

  1. Holy! by darth_MALL · · Score: 5, Funny

    Virgins!?! Apples!?!? It's all sounding very biblical to me. Leave it up to the Big Man to decide.

  2. Heh by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    - Plateforme Windows (98 SE et supérieur)

  3. Oh, the irony by Weaselmancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...of a music company accusing anyone of being an unfair monopoly. And, just to double your irony goodness...accusing Apple.

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  4. VirginMega?!? by JBMcB · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:This Raises An Excellent Question by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. What could have been... by MirgNave · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man that headline would have been much cooler if Apple had chosen Cherry for its corporate name instead.

  7. Here's the question I find interesting by mcc · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

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