wraggster
December 4th, 2014, 19:37
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/2592x1944+0+0/resize/630x473!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/midas/4589c51e27af270c7efb844272567344/201192590/2726771560_b4cdd86149.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/04/apple-deleted-non-itunes-music/)Long before Apple was shoehorning the latest from U2 (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/15/bono-apology-for-itunes-giveaway/) into your iTunes account, it was deleting songs originating from rival services. Tell us if this sounds familiar: You grabbed Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster from Amazon MP3 in 2009 (http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/itunes-store-now-infected-with-variable-pricing-amazon-still-0/), threw it in your iTunes library, went to sync your 160GB iPod classic (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/27/why-the-ipod-had-to-die/) and got an error message saying you needed to restore the device's factory settings. According to The Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/12/03/apple-deleted-rivals-songs-from-users-ipods/), upon restoring, non-iTunes music would disappear. In the courtroom for theanti-trust case (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/04/apple-drm/), prosecuting attorney Patrick Coughlin said that Apple directed the software to not tell users about their now-missing songs, too. Cupertino countered by saying that its actions were to thwart any attempts at hacking into iTunes and that users were kept in the dark for a reason. As security director Augustin Farrugia testified:
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