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

[Joe Linux]

Sounds like an expensive system crash to me.  If the machine locks up, 
it's not stable.  I think I'll just save my money and stick with PC 
clones running some flavor of Linux.

John & Sheila Nickerson wrote:

>Up to you of course but it ain't Apple you should be mad at.
>
>And BTW, there should be no need to get Apple to eject your cd for you.
>
>The cd's don't break the computer they just don't eject.
>
>There are ways to do that on your own and the apple site has them spelled out.
>
>Basically you either use the little hole and paper clip routine and if the 
>hole isn't there then reboot holding the mouse button which will eject the 
>cd. Or hold the X while booting into OS X and then use iToons to eject the cd.
>
>Anyway it's not up to apple to fix stuff you or some third party broke.
>
>
>My $.02
>
>John
>
>On Monday 13 May 2002 07:53 pm, you 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.
>
> ----- 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.
>
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