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A look at Apple's love for DRM and consumer lock-ins
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| Apple makes great productsâyou'll get no
| argument from us. But Apple also likes
| keeping tight control over those products,
| and if anyone outside of Apple's blessed
| circle attempts to get in, the company is
| more than willing to try to use (or abuse)
| the law to its advantage.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/a-look-at-apples-love-for-drm-and-consumer-lock-ins.ars
Tough To Punish Those Who File Bogus DMCA Takedowns
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| Eric Goldman highlights a case where an ISP
| tried to use section (f) to go after a
| bunch of folks who issued questionable DMCA
| takedowns that were clearly designed to
| harass a couple of websites (and, at one
| point, were used to try to take down the
| entire ISP). The details are a bit
| convoluted, but basically, a group of
| people critical of what was being said on a
| website issued a series of DMCA takedowns
| to keep the site down every time it came
| back up following a counternotice. This
| seems like a perfect case where the
| takedown issuers should be hit with
| sanctions of some sort, but the case was
| dismissed on procedural grounds instead,
| which seem to be based on a
| misunderstanding of the DMCA itself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091231/1224117567.shtml
Recent:
What is DRM doing in my garage?
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| My new garage door opener comes with both DRM
| and a DMCA warning: don't even think about
| using a third-party remote. But didn't a
| federal court already say this sort of
| behavior was illegal years ago?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/what-is-drm-doing-in-my-garage.ars
Apple & Audiobook Firms Insist On DRM
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| Yes, Apple. The company that at one point
| claimed DRM was bad and should be ditched,
| and convinced the record labels to ditch DRM.
| Yet, as we've noted in the past, outside of
| music, Apple is still a huge DRM supporter.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091213/2103287328.shtml
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