At 4:53 AM -0500 3/6/2009, Nikki Wraith wrote: >Breaking Federal law? Err..... IANAL, but I don't get it. You violate >the EULA, which would maybe violate contract laws, but what federal >law do you speak of? I know some have mentioned the DMCA - but it >doesn't apply here because there is no copyright protection >circumvention.
The EULA *is* a contract. There are laws governing contracts, breach, damages etc at both the Federal and State levels. Depending on the type of breach, one might face criminal and/or civil consequences. The DMCA is federal. As for its application here... hacking OS X is an act of creating a derivative work, done by decoding part of the copyrighted OS. That there decoding is illegal. These issues will, hopefully, be sorted out by the courts this year. Until then, running a hackintosh in a business environment creates a rather dangerous liability... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
