Apple and Sony get hit with lawsuits from French consumer group
Apple has dodged anti-trust allegations before, but now a French consumer group is slamming both Apple and Sony with a lawsuit, claiming their music stores violate anti-trust legislation because they don't work with other manufacturers' digital audio players. That, of course, is a little unfair, since you aren't required to buy an iPod to purchase songs from the iTunes Music Store or a Network Walkman to enjoy Sony Connect—besides, last we checked you could use iTunes on a PC, or Sony's service on PCs other than VAIOs. And here we were thinking that frivolous lawsuits were a purely American phenomenon.
