Apple worked to block '100 percent' of iTunes competitors from iPods

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http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/3000x1687+0+0/resize/630x354!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/584787ff6329fed7f95e22b29316068e/131066540.jpeg (http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/13/apple-blocked-itunes-competitors/)The federal antitrust case (http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/04/apple-drm/) Apple's fighting isn't looking any more favorable for the hardware giant since we last reported on it. Former iTunes engineer Rod Schultz testified on Friday that he'd worked on a project to block "100 percent of non-iTunes clients" in addition to keeping any third-party software from interfering with iTunes, according to The Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/12/12/former-itunes-engineer-tells-court-he-worked-to-block-competitors/). This, the plaintiffs claim, was part of an anti-competitive way to boost the prices of iPods from 2006 to 2009. Despite the plaintiff's best efforts, however, they weren't able to submit a 2012 academic paper (http://www.whiteboxcrypto.com/files/2012_MISC_DRM.pdf) (PDF) Schultz had written detailing Apple's blocking operating systems that didn't support iTunes (namely Linux) as evidence.

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