The company Apple, which owns the online iTunes store. com, has agreed to set uniform prices for digital content to customers from various countries in Europe.
Earlier in iTunes for each country were set their prices, the highest price download with iTunes has been installed for users in the UK. As a result, a British organization for the protection of consumer rights in 2004, complained to the EU, said CyberSecurity. ru.
The European Commission decided that the prices for goods online stores must be the same for all countries in the Eurozone. In addition, citizens of one EU member state should have the right to buy records at the store the other EU member state, that is, the online shops selling goods of the inhabitants of the euro area should have a single version for all of Europe.
Representatives of Apple promised that by the summer of 2008 prices and the store itself will be common in Europe. Otherwise, the activity of the iTunes store would be subjected to investigation, a similar ' case ' Microsoft '.
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