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Tag: FairPlay

How to check if your Mac’s songs are uploaded, matched, purchased, or Apple Music DRM-laden

Thursday, July 2, 2015 2:58 pmThursday, July 2, 201511 Comments

With Apple Music introducing a new form of DRM for its streaming catalog…

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…

Beleaguered RealNetworks cost-cutting continues, up to 80 jobs axed

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:01 pmWednesday, August 29, 201215 Comments

RealNetworks [RNWK] has commenced layoffs of seven percent of its workforce…

Apple asks judge to dismiss FairPlay lawsuit following Steve Jobs’ deposition

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:08 am6 Comments

A federal judge was asked by Apple Inc. to dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit…

U.S federal Judge orders Steve Jobs to answer questions in iTunes antitrust lawsuit

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 11:39 am25 Comments

A federal magistrate judge ordered Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs to answer questions…

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