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

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-955805.html

   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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