The Department of Justice is reportedly looking into Apple’s bullying ways in the digital music market, where its iTunes music store accounts for 70 percent of digital music sales and 28 percent of all music sales in the United States.
At issue: Apple’s objection to Amazon’s sale of certain albums exclusively, for one day and sometimes in advance of their official release dates, as part of a Daily Deal program launched nearly two years ago.
Since then, Amazon’s program apparently became too successful for Apple’s liking. Jobs and company began complaining to music executives about Amazon’s alleged special treatment around March of this year, according to Billboard.
For Apple, the situation came to a head when Amazon began asking labels participating in the program for free promotion on MySpace and other sites. “When that happened,” an anonymous music executive told Billboard, “iTunes said, ‘Enough of that shit.’”
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