Apple’s new music service being investigated for possible violation of competition laws – Tek.no

Apple has just ripped the veil off its new music service flow and Spotify competitor Apple Music, and already the service created some hustle and bustle. In May appeared anonymous sources who claimed that Apple was working to get rid of competition from Spotify and was under investigation for his methods.

Now reports among others Wall Street Journal and Reuters that these reports apparently voices. Prosecutors in the US states of New York and Connecticut are investigating namely now the agreements that Apple has signed with the record companies violate competition laws.

Suspected of working towards gratisstrømming

The information emerged in a letter sent to public prosecutors from the major record company Universal Music Group. It appears from the letter that the investigation concerns a possible cooperation to get rid of advertising funded gratisstrømming of music offered by among others Spotify.

Apple is apparently looking for gratisstrømmingen to Spotify. Photo: endermasali / Shutterstock.com

So this is the same information that anonymous sources leaked towards the website The Verge recently.

US statsasvokatene want both to determine whether Apple has entered into unlawful agreements with record companies and the record companies may have concluded agreements among themselves to impede competition on the flow market.

denied by Universal

– This newsletter is part of an ongoing investigation of music pouring industry, an industry where competition has recently led to new ways of listening to music for consumers. To safeguard these benefits, it is important to ensure that the market continues to evolve freely for secret cooperation and other methods that inhibit competition, said one prosecutor said in a statement.

In the letter denying the way Universal Music Group suspicions. The company says it has no agreements with Apple and other record companies to stop free services or which prevents the company to license music to specific flow services.

Just what might have happened behind the scenes in conjunction with the new Apple Music service is therefore still somewhat unclear, but probably will enough the fierce competition between Apple and Spotify on stream the market continue to create new headlines in the future.

Spotify has now begun to mobilize against Apple Music earnest company has collected billions in investor funds “