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Thursday, January 6, 2005 |
Antitrust issues surface with iTunes lawsuit [The Macintosh News Network]
Ridiculous both the suit and the coverage. A guy uses the iTunes Music Store and claims he has been "forced" to buy an iPod, because the iTunes Music Store is a "market on itself?. First of all nobody forces him to use the iTunes Music Store, not even the online music stores. All music is still available on CDs. Second, you can burn a CD with the music bought at the iTunes Music Store. Heck, you can even rerip that music into Mp3s and put it in any player of your choice. What I find appalling is that nobody would think of suing Micro$ucks (a convicted ilegal monopolist) for being forced to buy Windows in order to use MS Project (and there really there is no choice), or to buy an Xbox to buy Halo 2... That is because a program is not a market, and neither is a store.
9:23:22 AM 
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