Ondrej Holzman Until 2009, Apple used a protection system (DRM) for content in iTunes, which allowed music to be played only on Apple players, i.e. iPods and later iPhones. Some protested this as an illegal monopoly, but those claims have now been swept off the table once and for all by a California appeals court. He decided that it was not an illegal activity.
The three-judge panel responded to a long-running class action lawsuit alleging that Apple acted illegally when it implemented a digital rights management (DRM) system for music in the iTunes Store. digital rights management) and the songs could not be played anywhere but on devices with the bitten apple logo. After the introduction of DRM in 2004, Apple controlled 99 percent of the market for digital music and music players.
However, the judge was not persuaded by this fact to rule that Apple violated the antitrust laws. They also took into account the fact that Apple kept the price of 99 cents per song even when DRM was introduced. And he did the same when he entered the market with his Amazon free music. The price of 99 cents per song then remained even after Apple removed DRM in 2009.
The court was also unpersuaded by the argument that Apple changed its software so that its devices could not play songs from, for example, the Real Network, which sold them for 49 cents.
So the debate over whether or not DRM was legal in the iTunes Store is definitely over. However, Apple now faces a much tougher lawsuit in the case price fixing of e-books.
DRM is evil in any case :) similar nonsense * paradoxically * causes the audio/video market to be distorted, and in addition to the world of audio/video trade, there is also a world where everyone downloads whatever they want. traders have slept through the technology development period and are trying to catch up with the restrictions that the market has solved all over the world without their knowledge.
…”a (DRM) system that only allowed music to be played on Apple devices” … This is not entirely true. I have a lot of purchased DRM music and video clips from the iTunes Store via a US account from before the introduction of DRM Free, and I play them without any problems on computers from Sony, Dell or HP. All you need to do is authorize this NON-Apple device in iTunes for WIN. It's like you wrote that iTunes Match doesn't work on Widly.
You're right, I wrote it inaccurately. By apple devices only I meant iPods and other iOS devices, I somehow missed the ability to play in iTunes on other computers. Thank you.
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Shouldn't it be written "The DRM system was legal"?. Two negatives in a sentence so that the cert knows about it!