The attorneys general of New York and Connecticut, writes the newsletter specializing Corcom, they are investigating to see if there are agreements between the record companies that violate competition rules in the music market in streaming , where just a few days ago announced it would also join with Apple Apple Music. Meanwhile, the house of Cupertino, just hours before the developer conference in San Francisco, looks ahead and thinks you follow in the footsteps of Google and make its own superfast network, to offer services to their customers faster and more efficient.
The joint investigation between the two US states , which asks whether the music industry has acted to restrain competition among providers of music streaming , it has become public as soon as the attorney general of New York has published on its website a letter from Universal Music Group. The email of the legal department of Universal, dating back to Monday, does not specify, however, whether in the center of the investigation there is just Apple. Anyway Universal specification of not being “in cahoots” with Apple, and not be in contact with rivals of Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group to hinder competition in the market for streaming music.
“This letter is part of an ongoing investigation in the market for streaming music, the market in which competition has led to new and different ways of listening to consumers – told the Wall Street Journal Matt Mittenthal , spokesman for the Attorney General of New York Eric Schneiderman – to keep these benefits is important to ensure that the market continues to develop free from secret agreements and other practices that go against the competition. “
The letter came on the same day in which Apple has announced its new subscription service on demand streaming music, following in the footsteps of the one launched by Spotify . The price programmed by Apple is 10 dollars a month, but, unlike Spotify, service of Apple does not offer any kind of fruition free content in exchange for advertising.
As for the super-fast network, would Cupertino plans to invest billions of dollars to acquire a high-speed network and update their own data centers, with the aim to count on infrastructure more efficient and fastest way to deliver services to consumers.
The news is Bloomberg, who noted that Apple is working to link data centers in California, Nevada, North Carolina and Oregon, among themselves and with backbone ‘internet. From here, the content would arrive to consumers through broadband. A plan that goes in the direction of the strategy already adopted by Google, owner of thousands of kilometers of fiber optic cables ranging up to its datacenter and use hardware and proprietary software, as also Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have spent several billion dollars to improve infrastructure in the cloud.
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