Gestapo Owns an iPod
A reminder why purchasing a simple MP3 player rather than an iPod is important:
Apple told the operator of website bluwiki.com to remove postings that talked about ways to work around a special Apple file, known as iTunesDB. Apple said copyright law prohibited such talk.
“When a lawyer calls you up and implicitly threatens litigation that would bankrupt your little project you obviously have no choice but to comply,” he said. The technology rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation has taken on Odio as a nonpaying client to see if it can protect his freedom to post.
“This is a pure attack on interoperability,” said Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the Foundation.
He said that, until a year ago, iPods worked well with many kinds of music software. “In October of last year, they added (software) which has no purpose other than to prevent applications other than iTunes from working,” he added.Von Lohmann said court precedents make it clear others have a right to write software for iPods and iPhones.
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I’d call for a boycott on iPods but the fact is, my daughter and son each have one. Sigh. What a shame Apple can’t learn to play nice with others.
