Apple: Gugatan Class Action Soal iPod Dibuat-Buat

Sidang kasus gugatan class action soal iPod akan segara mendekati babak akhir minggu ini, tapi pengacara dari pihak penggugat dan Apple kian memanaskan suasana dengan argumen penutupannya masing-masing.

Dikabarkan Cnet, pengacara pihak penggugat menyatakan bahwa Apple tidak memiliki hak untuk memblokir akses musik dari toko musik pesaingnya.

“They [Apple] don’t believe that you own that iPod,” Patrick Coughlin, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in court today. “They believe that they still have the right to choose for you what third-party player can play on a device that you bought and you own.” Coughlin says Apple believed it had the right to “degrade your experience from a song you can play one day … to one you can’t play the next” when it shut out competing stores’ MP3 files.

Apple’s defense? Those claims are more or less nonsense. “This is all made up. It’s lawyer argument,” said Bill Isaacson, Apple’s lead attorney. “No evidence this ever happened … there’s no consumers, no iPod users, no surveys, no Apple business documents.” Isaacson ended Apple’s arguments with a plea, that the jury not “hold a great company liable and tell them to stop innovating – to stop innovating based on nonsense.”

Dalam sidang kasus gugatan iPod yang dimulai awal Desember ini, Apple telah mengeluarkan bukti-bukti penting, seperti keraguan mereka terhadap adanya penggugat iPod dan video testimoni almarhum Steve Jobs. Keputusan akhir hakim pengadilan kasus iPod ini diharapkan akan keluar minggu ini.

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