Following Friday morning’s filing of the Department of Justice’s sweeping requests in proposing penalties on Apple that would affect both the iBookstore as well as the entire digital content business, and put the company under extensive 10-year monitoring, Apple filed their reply on Friday afternoon with equal vigor: “Plaintiffs’ proposed injunction is a draconian and punitive intrusion into Apple’s business, wildly out of proportion to any adjudicated wrongdoing or potential harm.” The follow by calling the proposal “a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the Government to regulate Apple’s businesses and potentially affect Apple’s business relationships with thousands […]