Virgin suing Apple over iPod

French online music store Virgin Mega has filed a complaint against Apple Computer, claiming that the company's refusal to license the copy protection technology used in its iPod is harming competition.

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According to the filing, the online store, part of the Virgin family, is seeking various unspecified "interim measures," pending a decision on the merits of the case. A hearing on that request is expected in either October or November, Apple said in the filing. [CNet News]

Boy, that sounds awfully lame to me. First of all, Apple doesn't have a monopoly on music players or on DRM technology. Secondly, even if it did, that would be OK, because it's not illegal to have a monopoly -- what's illegal is to leverage a monopoly in one business domain to create a monopoly in another.

Maybe the laws are different in France. A lot of things seem to be.