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Dotnaught writes with word of an anti-trust lawsuit filed against Apple late last month. data Week has the story, a suit charging the company with maintaining an illegal monopoly on the digital music market. “The complaint goes beyond software licensing politics and charges Apple with intentionally designing its iPod hardware

to be incompatible with WMA. One of the third-party components in iPods, the Portal Player System-On-A-Chip, supports

WMA, according to the complaint. ‘Apple, however, intentionally designed the iPod’s software so that it would only play a one protected digital format, Apple’s FairPlay-modified AAC format,’ the complaint states. ‘Deliberately disabling a desirable feature of a computer product is known as crippling a product, and software that […]

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