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

Joe Linux joelinux at earthlink.net
Tue May 14 05:25:30 PDT 2002


What would be the basis for the law suite?  Who would be suing who, and 
over what?  The simple solution is to just not buy an iMac, and don't 
buy disks on the copy protection list.  That will solve the entire 
problem without any litigation.

Warren Togami wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <cpaul at telemetrybox.org>
>To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
>Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 8:06 PM
>Subject: Re: [luau] NEWS: New Copyprotected CD's destroy iMacs
>
>
>>On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:53:47PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>How are they pandering to the content industry?
>>
>>Their warranty clause might pave the way for a class-action suit on behalf
>>
>of Mac Users against the RIAA.  Repairs are expensive, and someone has to
>pay...
>
>Their own web page says that the computer is designed to support these copy
>protection methods.  This is grounds for a lawsuit.
>
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