[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Apple invokes DMCA to block patch to DVD-burning application

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-955805.html

    Apple: Burn DVDs--and we'll burn you
    By Declan McCullagh
    August 28, 2002, 3:04 PM PT

    WASHINGTON--Apple Computer has invoked the Digital Millennium
    Copyright Act to prevent its customers from burning DVDs on
    external drives.

    Earlier this month, the company's lawyers sent a stiff warning to
    an Apple dealer, warning that a patch to Apple's iDVD burning
    software ran afoul of the controversial 1998 copyright law.

    [...]




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