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Apple to shut down iTunes?

Oct 3, 2008, 12:46am

Via The UK Times : Apple threatens to shut down iTunes over royalty hike Apple could shut down iTunes, the world's biggest online music store, if a ruling expected tomorrow forces the company to pay more to music makers for each downloaded track. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) in Washington DC will decide whether to grant the request of American music publishers to increase royalty rates on songs bought from online music stores such as iTunes. ... Analysts said it was hard to [...]

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