Steve 職業s gives posthumous 証言 in Apple 裁判,公判

Three years after the tech world 嘆く/悼むd his passing, Apple 操る Steve 職業s was 支援する from the dead giving posthumous 証言 in a ビデオ at a US 独占禁止の 裁判,公判.

賠審員s in an Oakland 法廷,裁判所 have been 潜水するd since the beginning of the week in a 審議 over whether 消費者s who bought Apple's iPod between 2006 and 2009 were 効果的に 軍隊d to 購入(する) their music from the California 巨人's online iTunes 蓄える/店.

職業s' 証言 from a few months before his death in October 2011 was played at the 審理,公聴会 Friday.

An Apple employee in Manila wears a black arm band to mourn the death of Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs (portraits) on October 7, 2011

An Apple 従業員 in Manila wears a 黒人/ボイコット arm 禁止(する)d to 嘆く/悼む the death of Apple co-創立者 and chairman Steve 職業s (portraits) on October 7, 2011 ?Jay Direc to (AFP/とじ込み/提出する)

In excerpts published by online news 場所/位置 "The 瀬戸際," he said that Apple was "very 関心d" about 報復の 対策 that could be taken by 記録,記録的な/記録する companies if songs 購入(する)d in iTunes and downloaded to an iPod were then copied の上に somebody else's computer.

"We went to 広大な/多数の/重要な 苦痛s to make sure that people couldn't 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセス into our 数字表示式の 権利s 管理/経営 system because if they could, we would get 汚い emails from the labels 脅すing us that they were going to yank the license," 職業s said.

He argued that "lots of hackers" were trying to break into the system, and as a result, Apple had to be 絶えず "revving the iTunes and iPod ソフトウェア, の近くにing any 穴を開けるs that might be in it, or any problems it might have."

If these changes meant that competitors became locked out, then they were only "collateral 損失," he said.

原告/提訴人s in the class-活動/戦闘 控訴 argued that the repeat changes 妨げるd other online music 蓄える/店s -- and 潜在的に いっそう少なく expensive ones at that -- from adapting their own systems 急速な/放蕩な enough for their music to be used on the iPod.

This, they said, meant iPod owners had to make 購入(する)s on iTunes.

The 原告/提訴人s are (人命などを)奪う,主張するing $350 million in 損害賠償金. US 法律 許すs the 裁判官 to 3倍になる that sum.

The 裁判,公判 continues next week.

職業s died at the age of 56 after 戦う/戦いing 癌 for several years.

His death (機の)カム いっそう少なく than two months after ceding company leadership to Apple's 現在の CEO Tim Cook.

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