OS X hack sites closed;]

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

What are the odds that the duscussion just moves off shore. djf

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [IP] OS X hack sites closed;
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:07:00 -0500
From: Dan Shoop <shoop () iwiring net>
To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com
References: <43F65804.9020304 () farber net>

At 6:11 PM -0500 2/17/06, Dave Farber wrote:
> Sites discussing Mac OS X for PCs silenced
>
> Two water-cooler sites for hackers are down this morning, and one
> of them has credited the DMCA with the outage.
> http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?c=1520458-2915407&brand=zdnet&ds=5&fs=0
>
> Apple Computer appears to have invoked the Digital Millenium Copyright
> Act to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OS X to run on
> chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
>
> The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday after the forum was
> served with a notice under the DMCA, according to a posting on the site.
>
> "We're sorry to report that despite our best efforts, the OSx86 Project
> has been served with a DMCA violation notice. The forum will be
> unavailable while we evaluate its contents to remove any violations
> present. We thank you for your patience in this matter," the posting read.
>
> Win2osx.net, another Web site that hosts discussions related to getting
> Mac OS X onto chips with the x86 instruction set, was also down Friday.
> Earlier this week, Win2osx.net's discussion forums contained a posting
> from a hacker known as "Maxxuss," who made a patch available on his own
> Web site that would allow programming-savvy PC users to put a recent
> version of the Mac operating system on their x86 systems.

It should be noted that both of these site were advocating and
demonstrating how to break the EULA that Apple ships Mac OS X under.
That's breach of terms. The sites were aiding and abetting users to
violate their agreements with Apple.
-- 

-dhan

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