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U.S. jury tells Apple to pay $308.5 million for DRM patent infringement

Monday, March 22, 2021 9:29 amNo Comments

A federal jury in Texas said Apple must pay about $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications LLC (PMC) for infringing a DRM patent…

Apple gets a win in long-running DRM patent lawsuit

Monday, May 11, 2020 5:05 pm1 Comment

the Federal Circuit handed Apple a win by affirming a previous PTAB decision to review a patent in a long-running DRM patent lawsuit saga…

Need to fix an iPhone? You can now break DRM under new U.S. rules

Friday, October 26, 2018 11:01 amFriday, October 26, 2018No Comments

The rules permit circumvention of DRM to maintain or repair them…

AudFree launches audio converter to remove DRM from Apple Music, Audible

Friday, June 29, 2018 10:58 am9 Comments

AudFree Software has launched a new product called AudFree DRM Audio Converter…

Apple wins patent infringement lawsuit filed by Pendrell subsidiary ContentGuard

Monday, November 23, 2015 9:55 amMonday, November 23, 20156 Comments

Apple has emerged victorious in yet another legal tussle pertaining to patent infringement..

Judge rules videotaped Steve Jobs deposition to remain sealed

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:57 pmWednesday, December 17, 20148 Comments

After successfully defending a long-running antitrust case, Apple won…

Apple defeats $1 billion iPod antitrust suit in three hours

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:54 am17 Comments

Apple Inc. quickly dispensed with a $1 billion lawsuit by iPod users…

Jury: Apple not guilty of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:28 pm60 Comments

A federal jury handed Apple a win in a long-running antitrust case on Tuesday…

Apple’s 2006 iTunes tweaks likened to poison candy bar

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:59 amTuesday, December 16, 201419 Comments

Patrick Coughlin, an attorney for consumers, made his final pitch…

Closing arguments begin in trial over Apple iPod, rival

Monday, December 15, 2014 5:25 pmMonday, December 15, 201411 Comments

Closing arguments were delivered on Monday in an Oakland, California…

Former iTunes engineer describes Apple’s ‘secret war’ against DRM hackers

Monday, December 15, 2014 11:25 amMonday, December 15, 20148 Comments

A former iTunes engineer testified in a federal antitrust case against Apple…

Economists in iPod trial: Apple’s iPod+iTunes system was not anticompetitive

Friday, December 12, 2014 10:00 amFriday, December 12, 20145 Comments

Apple Inc. tried a two-economists-are-smarter-than-one strategy to convince a jury…

Apple goes on offensive in iPod antitrust trial

Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:56 amThursday, December 11, 201416 Comments

Apple went on the offensive Wednesday with its own witnesses…

Tango-loving ice dancer recruited as plaintiff to save increasingly-ludicrous Apple iPod suit

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:54 pmWednesday, December 10, 201440 Comments

With their $1 billion lawsuit against Apple Inc. on thin ice…

Apple’s lawyer accuses the media of asking to see ‘a dead man’ in Steve Jobs video testimony

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:57 pmWednesday, December 10, 201427 Comments

A California judge is still mulling a decision to make public a video deposition…

Apple trial continues as lawyers search for replacement plaintiff

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 4:54 pmTuesday, December 9, 201415 Comments

A $1 billion trial against Apple Inc. over…

The rampant stupidity of the Apple iPod antitrust suit

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1:01 pmTuesday, December 9, 201425 Comments

No plaintiffs, no problem. Seriously?

News organizations fight to release Steve Jobs deposition video

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:58 amTuesday, December 9, 20144 Comments

Some of the last video footage taken of the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs…

Judge: Apple iPod trial will continue despite no plaintiff in case

Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:27 am41 Comments

‘Find a new plantiff’ orders judge…

Steve Jobs, aggressive then frail, looms large at Apple iPod trial

Saturday, December 6, 2014 9:57 am10 Comments

Jurors were presented this week with two images of Steve Jobs…

Steve Jobs’ video testimony transfixes courtroom

Friday, December 5, 2014 6:02 pmFriday, December 5, 201422 Comments

Three years after his death, legendary Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs…

Apple punches holes in plaintiff’s purchases, asks for dismissal of iPod class action suit

Friday, December 5, 2014 4:55 pmFriday, December 5, 201413 Comments

Apple filed for dismissal Friday of a long-standing antitrust case…

Apple’s Eddy Cue explains why DRM for music was a necessary evil

Friday, December 5, 2014 10:28 amFriday, December 5, 201413 Comments

Apple abhorred DRM, but had to implement it in order to broker deals with record labels…

Oops, no plaintiff! Apple iPod judge asks if lack of plaintiff dooms trial

Friday, December 5, 2014 9:26 amFriday, December 5, 201419 Comments

Apple Inc said it discovered that the lead consumer in a $1 billion lawsuit didn’t buy a device in the time period covered by the case…

Apple executives to take stand in antitrust trial

Thursday, December 4, 2014 1:20 pm10 Comments

Apple’s top executives are scheduled to take the stand Thursday…

Apple deleted songs from rival services from users’ iPods

Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:41 amThursday, December 4, 20145 Comments

Apple deleted music that some iPod owners had downloaded from competing music services…

Apple on trial: Were iTunes updates really an anti-consumer scheme?

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5:01 pmWednesday, December 3, 201425 Comments

The Apple iTunes DRM trial underway in federal court here will come down to how…

Steve Jobs on RealNetworks in 2011 deposition: ‘Do they still exist?’

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:28 amWednesday, December 3, 201416 Comments

The late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., led the company…

Steve Jobs said Apple took pains to protect record contracts

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 10:53 amWednesday, December 3, 20148 Comments

Steve Jobs defended Apple Inc.’s use of software for the iPod and iTunes…

Apple’s $1 billion antitrust case revisits the era of iPod’s dominance

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 9:28 amTuesday, December 2, 201444 Comments

After an almost decade-long fight in federal court…

Star witness in Apple lawsuit is Steve Jobs

Monday, December 1, 2014 9:01 am5 Comments

Three years after his death, Steve Jobs is very much a presence in courtrooms…

Younity app lets iPhones and iPads legally stream DRM videos from your iTunes library

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:31 pmWednesday, July 2, 201418 Comments

iTunes videos will stream in their original, full resolution, anywhere in the world…

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