The U.S. Department of Justice has been making a few calls to record labels to ask some pointed questions about iTunes.
According to several reports, the DoJ’s antitrust division has reached out to Universal, Sony, Warner Bros, EMI and several music services that compete with iTunes, such as eMusic. Feds have been asking preliminary questions about Apple’s pricing and competition, particularly with regard to Amazon’s music store.
There are some concerns that Apple may be unfairly manipulating certain companies into not working with Amazon. Not long ago, Apple removed certain featured items from iTunes when the parent company selling them defected to Amazon for other promotions, namely Amazon’s “Deal of the Day.”
Apple has just surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization; is it time for Apple to come under intense scrutiny and an antitrust investigation for one of its leading products, the way Microsoft did for Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer
back in the Dark Ages? Let us know what you think.
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