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Article: All rights reserved.(Apple Computer Inc., Apple Computer Inc. iTunes Music Store, services)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Back when Apple Computer promised Apple Records that it wouldn't switch from computers to the music industry, the idea that the two companies would ever be in the same business seemed silly. Yet today there's no telling where computers stop and music, movies, and television begin. The result is a potentially cataclysmic clash over your rights as a consumer--and Apple is right in the middle.
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