EU Goes Apple-plectic Over ITunes IP

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  • 03/11/2007
In another sign that the Europe is shrinking by virtue of self-inflicted acts of self-loathing and irrelevancy...

BERLIN (Reuters) -
"European Union consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has hit out at Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) bundling of its popular iPod music players and its iTunes online music store, according to German weekly magazine Focus.

"Do you think it's fine that a CD plays in all CD players but that an iTunes song only plays in an iPod? I don't. Something has to change," EU Consumer Protection Commissioner Kuneva was quoted as saying in a preview of an interview to be published on Monday."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070311/tc_nm/eu_apple_dc

The last time I was on-line I found tons of music sites where you can download music that play on any number of MP3 players. So what's the problem?

What has to change is the EU's attack on anything that is both innovative and American.
Like new drugs, Ipods, Microsoft, etc. Too bad American innovators don't join forces HERE to stop the assault on innovation in Congress and in Europe. Self-loathing you see, is a global epidemic.
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