Abusing Copyrights to Silence Critics, Control Customers, and Crush Competition

“Hardly a day goes by without yet another news story about
creative uses of copyright, the DMCA, and generic attack lawyers to
stifle free speech, criticism, and competition. It seems that money
can buy all kinds of creative “justice.” For example, in the
increasingly bizarre Apple vs. Psystar drama, in which Psystar
commited the awful crime of selling a tool to help customers
install Mac OS X on the hardware of their choice, Apple have
prevailed yet again in court, and Psystar cannot do this anymore.
Linux Today readers, as usual, offer clear insights:

“What They’ve Twisted Copyright Into

“”The whole case with Psystar just underlines what big business
has twisted copyright into. The so-called ‘DRM’ in Apple’s
operating system isn’t to prevent copying of the software, but to
prevent installation on a non-Apple machine.”

“”Psystar wasn’t selling pirated copies of Apple’s operating
system, they were simply installing legitimately purchased copies
of the operating system on machines not made by Apple. The only
thing prohibiting this is the EULA for the operating system, not
copyright law, so how does this this by any stretch of the
imagination make them “hardcore copyright infringers”? At most it
puts them in violation of the EULA, a contract, not copyright
law.”

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