Eddy Cue Gives Evidence at iPod Antitrust Case

[Maura]

Following on from yesterday’s revelations that Apple had deleted songs from the iPod of a plaintiff in a class action suit against the company, MacRumors reports today that Apple iTunes chief Eddy Cue has testified at the hearing in California.

Speaking about Apple’s Digital Rights Management policy (DRM), which is the subject of the class action law suit, Cue said that Apple had initially been against DRM, but had been forced to implement it by record labels.

Cue went on to say that Apple’s FairPlay DRM was not licensed to other companies to let competing music services play iTunes music because Apple was unable to “find a way to do that and have it work reliably,” according to Cue.

Cue noted that other companies, such as Microsoft, had tried to create devices and services with interoperability, but they had “failed miserably.”

Apple’s FairPlay DRM basically prevents music from iTunes being played on other players

Source: MacRumors