[luau] NEWS: New Copyprotected CD's destroy iMacs

[Warren Togami]

May I also add that this kind of decisions by Apple just changed my mind
about buying a Mac in the near future.  With OS X I thought it would be
worth it to buy one, but I will not monetarily support a company that
panders to this kind of content industry abuse.

Apple.  You lost a customer.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "LUAU" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 7:40 PM
Subject: [luau] NEWS: New Copyprotected CD's destroy iMacs


> Can you say outrage?
>
> Further bad news in Slashdot comments:
>
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32567&cid=3514269
>  "Apple designs its CD drives to support media that conforms to such
> standards. Apple computers are not designed to support copyright protected
> media that do not conform to such standards. Therefore, any attempt to use
> non standard discs with Apple CD drives will be considered a
misapplication
> of the product. Under the terms of Apple's One-Year Limited Warranty,
> AppleCare Protection Plan, or other AppleCare agreement any misapplication
> of the product is excluded from Apple's repair coverage. "
>
> So not only is the computer broken because you didn't see the fine print
and
> tried to play a cd in it, but you have to pay for the repairs.