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Apple has confessed that it deleted songs that were downloaded on iPods from rival music services, without informing users about this. This admission comes as part of the ongoing class-action antitrust lawsuit that the company is facing in US District Court of Oakland, California.
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Not only did Apple not inform users about deleting the songs, it chose "not to tell users the problem," the plaintiffs' attorney Patrick Coughlin was quoted by WSJ as saying.
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According to Coughlin's statement in the court, iTunes would show an error every time a user would try to sync an iPod having songs from third-party music download services. The software would ask the user to restore the device to factory settings, thus wiping off the songs downloaded via other services.
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The plaintiffs claim that users eventually had to remain stuck in Apple's ecosystem in order to continue using the iPod, thus limiting the market for other music services and players.
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Plaintiffs' attorney Patrick Coughlin earlier showed jurors a 2003 email from Jobs, written about the launch of another competitor's online music store, which said, "We need to make sure that when Music Match launches" their store, "they cannot use iPod."
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