Consumer watchdog hits out at iTunes pricing
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The Consumers&#39; Association (CA) has accused Apple of taking too big a bite out of UK music lovers&#39; money. It has asked the Office of Fair (OFT) to investigate the potential breach of competition law.
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An old-fashioned price war is gearing up in the digital music download business, with RealNetworks (Quote, Chart) on the offensive. With rival Apple in its crosshairs, RealNetworks has slashed the price on songs sold from its RealPlayer store by 50 ...
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The world&#39;s first legitimate music download service, Apple iTunes, is to be investigated by a government watchdog for overcharging its British customers by up to 20 per cent.
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The new price of 99 cents per song sold online without copy protection puts Appleâs iTunes store closer in line with its rivals.
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The Consumers&#39; Association has accused iTunes - the music download service from Apple - of ripping off UK punters by charging them 20 per cent more than European counterparts.
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Apple is facing questions over user data placed in DRM-free tracks sold through iTunes.
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Study comparing iTunes music catalog with Limewire concludes that the free file sharing service isn't such a good deal.
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The UK&#39;s Office of Fair Trading is conducting an investigation following a letter of complaint from the Consumers&#39; Association pointing out that Apple&#39;s iTunes online store sells a digital
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Though neither side is calling it a quid pro quo, Apple Inc. has agreed to drop the price of iTunes music downloads in the U.K. and, in return, the European Union's antitrust agency ended its probe into the U.S. company's pricing practices.
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TechWeb - Apple responds to a European Union pricing investigation but wants U.K. labels to cut distribution costs as well.
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UK regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has not initiated an investigation into Apple&#39;s iTunes UK pricing. The Consumer&#39;s Association (CA) yesterday filed a complaint with the OFT, alleging that Apple is &quot;ripping-off&quot; UK music buyers.
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- Apple Inc.  said it launched iTunes  Plus, a digital rights management-free music download service,  for $1.29 per song.
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Apple has responded to a midnight Wednesday deadline in relation to antitrust concerns over the pricing of songs on its iTunes online music store across different European countries. The European Commission has expressed concerns about Apple setting unfair iTunes pricing prohibiting users in one country from downloading music from a website intended to serve another. A European commission spokesperson said: "They answered yesterday and we are studying [the response] carefully at this point."
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In the UK, iTunes charges consumers STG0.79 per song, or around EUR1.20. In France and Germany, however, the cost of downloads is just EUR0.
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The company ended its temporary promotion that saw it slash the price of its downloadable songs to 49 cents. The company launched the promotion last month to compete with Apple&#39;s iTunes service, the market leader.
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A watchdog group asks a consumer-protection agency to look into the higher price of songs on Apple's British version of its iTunes service. Wendy M. Grossman reports from London.
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Apple Computer Corp is charging its British iTunes customers 17 percent more per download than its European customers, a consumer watchdog group has said.