Jury finds Apple not liable of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case

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The Verge reported on Apple being cleared in the iTunes DRM case.

Delivering a unanimous verdict today, the group said Apple’s iTunes 7.0, released in the fall of 2006, was a “genuine product improvement,” meaning that new features (though importantly increased security) were good for consumers. Plaintiffs in the case unsuccessfully argued that those features not only thwarted competition, but also made Apple’s products less useful since customers could not as easily use purchased music or jukebox software from other companies with the iPod.

There wasn’t much of a case after it was discovered that the plaintiffs did not even own the affected iPod models.

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