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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- RealNetworks, maker of software that allows internet downloading of music and video, has sued Microsoft for alleged U.S. antitrust violations.
At issue is Microsoft's own Windows Media Player. RealNetworks claims Microsoft is trying to crush competition by bundling it with the Windows operating system to guarantee near universal distribution.
RealNetworks chief executive Rob Glaser, a former Microsoft employee, said his company will ask a federal court in California to, at a minimum, force Microsoft to separate the Windows player from its operating system and to award damages exceeding $1 billion, the Washington Post reported Friday.
The suit is a setback for Microsoft's efforts to work out of a nearly decade-long legal quagmire over business practices. Though it settled with the Justice Department in late 2001 over antitrust violations, Microsoft faces a major case brought by European Union regulators that has similar elements to the RealNetwork case.
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