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FC: Apple invokes DMCA to block patch to DVD-burning application

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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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