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Old 12-03-2008, 08:23 PM
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Apple vs. Psycrap - Fire now expanding to whole OSX86 scene?

Taken from: http://www.hackint0sh.org/news/319

Apple has added a new wrinkle to its copyright infringement lawsuit against Florida-based Psystar. The Cupertino-based media company now claims the Mac clone-maker violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In a revised claim filed Nov. 26, Apple charged Psystar “has illegally circumvented Apple’s technological copyright-protection measures,” according to Computerworld. Apple also named 10 new unnamed defendants, listed only as John Doe 1 through 10.

This questionable move might be aimed to indirectly accuse the OSX86 community in this DMCA suite. But there are many open questions like, how apple’s lawyer are trying to find their John Does, as most of the initial OSX86 developer are out of business for long times, or if they are just going to be replaced by some dummies for the show of it. Factly most of the OSX so called “copyright-protections” (erm, what is a copyright protection? The circle around the “c”? we think copy protections should be the right word) do not even exist. Other than that isn’t it malfunction that something just runs on one hardware and not on another? Not just cause OSX is majorly based upon BSD and Mach it is based upon FREE opensource work, which was NOT created by apple. Getting OSX to run on any Intel hardware, basicly just needs some adjustments (fixes) to the kernel, which is licensed under APSL for free modification by anyone who republishs the source. Modern methods do not even need this anymore as OSX is simply booted with a special crafted EFI, which gives OSX some Boot params which is a INTEL standarized work which later shall replace BIOS one day. Under this viewpoint, so what? What is Apple trying to enforce or sue here? Is it all theather?

Please don’t get me wrong I dislike Psycrap as much as Apple does (peopel who steal from a free community for commerce just suck), but some things Apple does in this suite go a step to far. Getting themself a wind up for their sales by thousends of switchers and geeks who got intrested in OSX, tolerating things until they were useful and striking it down afterwards is terrible bad idea. So we are going to follow this case with intrest, either it will finally free the world of the misbelive OSX is just designed for macs or make this place a sad world for anyone who likes OSX as a operation system. Happily EFIX and other free and clean solutions still exist and ever will, which will make it much harder to claim DMCA violation for, if it’s not even impossible to do so.

If Apple is now going to attack the hacking scene, they will, soon or later, get the bill for sure. Never forget your roots. It’s still doubtful if you will ever see aanyone from the oldschool celebreties in court."

If you want to be known, don't be. We like to think we are united here as a hackintosh community but this is not a business and this point needs to be drilled in because I see people taking advantage of help all the time and not taking this as just a "fun thing to do" anymore.


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Old 12-03-2008, 09:00 PM
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*worries if I should format my drive 32 times and just stick with Windows, because FBI agents banging in and cuffing me sounds unpleasant at best*
Hopefully this is just theater or just something else to throw at Psystar.

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Old 12-04-2008, 12:15 AM
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well my point in posting it was not to "scare" people but to remind them of why we as devs, mods, etc got into this in the first place... it was fun to see if we could really do it.

Once you start to gain anything off of this, it becomes apparent you are in this for more than just that.

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Old 12-04-2008, 02:50 AM
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I gained some freedom from the chains of Windows this way...does that count?

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Old 12-04-2008, 03:08 AM
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fbi or anyone of that sort will not come after you for running osx86
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Old 12-04-2008, 03:17 AM
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yeah its kinda like lime wire in the fact that if the FBI are going to look for someone if anyone for OSX86 related copy wright laws then there going to go to the creators that made it possible first.

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Old 12-04-2008, 09:40 AM
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I know. Sarcasm doesn't translate the best in plain text.
John Doe 1-10 is odd. Anonymous hackers?

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Old 12-04-2008, 10:54 AM
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Hm. I'm rather worried abut this. In my opionion Psystar is making money with illegal software, and that is not good. JaS did the same with a his begging page as he wanted the community to donate for his Macbook - and this although his images were crap.

I think it would be possible that one black sheep (hope the expression is known in the English language ;-) could affect a lot of other people. It wouldn't be the first time.

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Old 12-06-2008, 02:14 AM
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Great, now some place in Argentina's put out "OpeniMacs" that are similar to Psystar's trash.
*facepalms*

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