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Good question A bunch of comments on Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle - The Value Chain Again
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:29:46 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com> Date: March 15, 2009 7:27:55 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: Re: [IP] A bunch of comments on Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle - The Value Chain Again
Dave -On what basis would Apple be able to extract a royalty? There is likely no patent, no copyright, no trade secret here. Reverse engineering should be quite simple - just take apart the earphones and measure the various electrical properties.
There doesn't even seem to be a rationale for Apple to pursue DMCA remedies - for that you need "copyright" rights on something, perhaps microcode.
I must be missing something here on this one. This is just a small barrier to entry of the sort that every company tries to erect wherever it can - like the non-standardized power plugs on nearly all non-Apple laptops, which are used to extract extra profit, but are hardly illegal uses of monopoly power.
- David David Farber wrote:
The real issue is will the earphone venders have to py a royalty to Apple for usng their interface?djf Begin forwarded message: From: Ari Ollikainen <ari () olteco com> Date: March 15, 2009 12:40:53 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] Re: A bunch of comments on Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle - The Value Chain AgainAdd to all that a touch of reality:<http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/ipod-shuffle-friendly-headphones-with-inline-control-coming.ars >I happen to like my 3rd Gen shuffle ( I needed new earphones anyway...).- - -"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselvesup and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." --Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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