{"id":4831,"date":"2014-12-05T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/05\/apple-intentionally-deleted-music-not-bought-from-itunes\/"},"modified":"2014-12-05T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:14:34","slug":"apple-intentionally-deleted-music-not-bought-from-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/05\/apple-intentionally-deleted-music-not-bought-from-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple intentionally deleted music not bought from iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/85\/Apple_Store_Yonkers%2C_NY_January_8%2C_2013.jpg\/1280px-Apple_Store_Yonkers%2C_NY_January_8%2C_2013.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"147\" \/><br \/>Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in a <span class=\" u-underline\">potentially billion dollar antitrust class-action lawsuit<\/span> against Apple for abuse of its iTunes Music Store dominance told the jury that the Californian electronics company scanned for music not bought from iTunes, and forced a factory reset of the iPod if any was detected. \u201cYou guys decided to give them the worst possible experience and blow up\u201d a user\u2019s iPod music, attorney Patrick Coughlin <span class=\" u-underline\">told the US District Court in Oakland, California<\/span>.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Users who tried to sync and update an iPod with music from the likes of Amazon or 7Digital were told there was an error with their iPod that could only be solved with a factory restore through iTunes, which completely wiped the <span class=\" u-underline\">iPod<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Restoring the iPod from iTunes would not restore music from rival services. Apple decided to \u201cnot to tell users the problem\u201d Coughlin explained.<\/p>\n<p>Apple security director Augustin Farrugia told the court that the music was deleted for security reasons and that hackers including Jon Lech Johansen also known as \u201cDVD Jon\u201d and software such as the digital rights management removal tool Requiem had made Apple \u201cvery paranoid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone is breaking into our house,\u201d Apple\u2019s founder and chief executive <span class=\" u-underline\">Steve Jobs<\/span> wrote at the time, according to an email exhibited by Apple software head Eddy Cue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system was totally hacked,\u201d said Farrugia and that the music was deleted for security reasons, saying that \u201cwe don\u2019t need to give users too much information\u201d because \u201cwe don\u2019t want to confuse users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in a potentially billion dollar antitrust class-action lawsuit against Apple for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}