At 9:09 AM -0500 3/6/09, Dan posted: > 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...
And yet some of the greatest inventions have come about by people hacking what exists to see what else it can do. Maybe this is why American inventions haven't kept pace with other countries -- too many lawyers stopping innovations. Steve R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
