Comments on: Apple Sends Cease and Desist Email to Public Wiki Site, Bluwiki [U]

By: jojo22

jojo22 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:17:32 +0000

this is out of control. apple is wasting their time on this. there is absolutely no need.

@Mark: shutting down every discussion about the mechanism wouldn’t be good for Apple’s development community, or the face of the company in general.

This obviously goes to show that Apple human moderates a lot of what they read and what is being read about them. If any rep of the company sees a thread popping about a way to “circumvent” iTunes, I’m sure they’d be all about shutting that down immediately.

By: mark

mark — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:14:53 +0000

@yuryu, but where exactly does the information presented “circumvent” anything?

With the exactly same reasoning they can shut down every discussion about the mechanism.

The DMCA does – in this way – not only shut down technical or software measures, it tries to gag people.

By: shmegal

shmegal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:07:09 +0000

legalities, shmegalities — Apple needs to chill out. Nobody could figure out how to get around iTunes.

By: HenryTWOtima

HenryTWOtima — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:58:54 +0000

@yuryu: that’s fine. but Apple has bigger fish to fry. especially since it seems they made a mistake with DMCA to begin with.

By: yuryu45

yuryu45 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:35:45 +0000

@Henry: First of all, Apple needs to protect itself. If anyone tries to write a program that could bypass iTunes, Apple would be in some trouble. It makes sense to me that they would try and stop this.

By: HenryTWOtima

HenryTWOtima — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:29:36 +0000

Sick. Apple is sick. They are getting slammed from all sides by lawsuits left and right and they send a cease and desist letter to Bluwiki? That’s crazy! Come on Cupertino, get it together. You should be going after the Meizu Mini. http://www.meizu.com/ for ripping you off.