![]() ![]() See Apple wants jack and jane consumer to be able to burn DVD’s with their super drive equipped macs. However, Apple is not taking advantage of the large loop holes in the DMCA, it is using it in the *SPIRIT* in which it was intended. The DMCA has earned its rightfully deserved evil reputation. Sure, it is always bad PR for a company to associate themselves in anyway with the DMCA. If cars could be hacked and pirated easily, I bet the automotive industry would sink like a stone. Next, people will be asking Apple to stop charging for the OS entirely! “After all, I paid a bunch of money for my Mac! Why should I have to buy expensive OS upgrades later when I could use Linux for free?” Mac thing: Apple charges for something they should have charged for all along, something that was costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars, and people throw a fit. The only PR problem here is with a bunch of whiners who like to play armchair CEO and think the world should revolve around them. Good Business = create products or services, make moneyīad business = create products for free that can be used with other products robbing business of important revenue If Creative made a free audio jukebox that only worked with Creative hardware, would that be a problem? Oh wait, that already exists. Hypothetical question: if Sony created a video editor for their VAIO computers that only worked with Sony video cameras, would that be a problem? Not for me. ![]()
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