Apple beats iTunes antitrust case a decade in the making<article>
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A jury decided Tuesday that Apple wasn’t trying to monopolize digital music when it added FairPlay, a digital rights management technology, to songs it
sold on iTunes. The class-action suit against Apple was a decade in the making, but it took jurors just
three hours to reach a verdict: Apple wins.</p><p>
The lawsuit covered iPods purchased between September 2006 and March 2009, when only songs purchased in iTunes—and thereby protected by FairPlay—or
imported from CDs would play on the devices. The jury was asked to decide whether two versions of iTunes, which included iPod firmware that made songs from
rival services incompatible with the devices, were major product improvements or designed specifically to block rival services. One of the iTunes versions
was tossed out of contention, and the jury decided that the other iTunes update did actually improve the product.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2859128/apple-beats-itunes-antitrust-case-a-decade-in-the-making.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Apple beats iTunes antitrust case a decade in the making
