Ondrej Holzman To the chagrin of the three media companies, Judge Yvonne Rogers ruled, after which Associated Press, Bloomberg a CNN they askedto have it published resignation Steve Jobs. This was part of the current court proceedings where Apple's protection system in iTunes and iPods was addressed. The video recording of Jobs' statement will not be made public.
The jury is already in the case this week she delivered the verdict, which stated that Apple did not restrict customers or harm competition when updating iTunes and iPods, even though the new versions included blocking access to competing content to its devices. Now the jury's decision was supplemented by Judge Rogers, who did not comply with the request of the three media companies.
Twenty-seven minutes of the two-hour deposition, which was recorded a few months before Jobs' death in 2011, was played before the jury in a courtroom where no recording equipment could be used. Rogers ultimately ruled that the videotape of Jobs should be treated like any other deposition that took place in the Federal Circuit, meaning that it could not be released.
"Jobs' testimony was only on video due to the unavailability of the witness and should be treated in the same way as previous live testimony before the court," Rogers wrote, adding that releasing the video would give the public access it would otherwise not have on appeal or appellate review. court.
In his testimony, Jobs explained that Apple had to use the FairPlay protection system in iTunes and iPods mainly because of agreements with record companies. According to him, Apple engineers had to make considerable efforts to prevent hacker attacks. "Steve Jobs is not your usual witness," lawyers for the media companies urged to release the full deposition, significantly they did not agree Apple representatives.
"The value of seeing him again in his black turtleneck — this time very sick — is minimal," Apple lawyer Jonathan Sherman said, explaining that there was no reason to make the video public. Already at that point, the judge was leaning more towards Apple when she stated that it would be problematic if she treated one statement differently than others that were not recorded. In the end, she actually decided not to publish the resignation.
The lawyers of the three mentioned media companies have argued that no transcript can capture how Steve Jobs testified, but if we go through the complete transcript of Jobs' words (in English you can find <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>), we find out that the late co-founder of Apple didn't say too much that the public needed to see.
