Apple is close to coming to an agreement with European Commission on charges that its iTunes stores broke EU rules by setting prices country by country in Europe. It is supposed to make some changes in pricing in its European services, and after that, EC will close its long-running case against the company. Not sure whether the changes from Apple would involve any money settlement...earlier reports pegged the fine may be as high as $600 million. More details when they come out. The commission in April sent a ”statement of objection” to Apple and the four majors complaining that customers can only buy digital songs from their home nation’s iTunes Store and not others. This would break article 18 of the EC Treaty governing restrictive business practices - and means British customers must pay £0.79 per track versus the EUR 0.99 (£0.67) enjoyed in the eurozone.
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-apple-close-to-resolving-european-itunes-country-pricing-case/
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2008-01-08T134237Z_01_BRB000521_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-EU.xml
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