The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco this week upheld a lower court's ruling which found that Apple's operation of the iTunes Music Store did not run afoul of antitrust law.
The initial lawsuit against Apple was filed by Stacie Somers in December 2007. The suit alleged that Apple operated an illegal monopoly to the extent that songs purchased on iTunes (back when songs were encumbered with DRM) were unplayable on non-Apple devices.
In finding no wrongdoing on Apple's part, the Court of Appeals noted that Apple's $0.99 pricepoint for songs remained the same with and without DRM enabled. Note that Apple began selling DRM free songs on iTunes back in early 2009.
Gigaom reports:
