Apple deleted users’ non-iTunes music and didn’t tell them about it
A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday against Apple for deleting their competitors music off of an Apple users IPods without informing them.
If you downloaded music between 2007-2009 from any other music service that was not iTunes music, than Apple took it upon themselves to remove your music.
How is that? Patrick Coughlin, an attorney in the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California said that when the user went to sync/back-up their IPods to their iTunes, the user would receive an error message and be instructed to restore their factory setting. Apple also directed their system “not to tell the users the problem.”
Apple security director Augustin Farrugia testified that “We don’t need to give users too much information,” and “We don’t want to confuse users” as a reason for not offering more than an error message to the users.
Farrugia also told the court that there were a couple of hackers who made them “very paranoid” regarding protection of iTunes. Farrugia said that the updates that deleted non-Apple music files were intended to protect consumers from those system break-ins “the system was totally hacked.”
Apple has declined to comment regarding the class act lawsuit.
Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs took a videotaped deposition in 2011 before his passing regarding this case and will be used along with e-mails from Jobs.
Via:engadget.com
