May I also add that this kind of decisions by Apple just changed my mind about buying a Mac in the near future. With OS X I thought it would be worth it to buy one, but I will not monetarily support a company that panders to this kind of content industry abuse.
Apple. You lost a customer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Togami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 7:40 PM Subject: [luau] NEWS: New Copyprotected CD's destroy iMacs > Can you say outrage? > > Further bad news in Slashdot comments: > > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32567&cid=3514269 > "Apple designs its CD drives to support media that conforms to such > standards. Apple computers are not designed to support copyright protected > media that do not conform to such standards. Therefore, any attempt to use > non standard discs with Apple CD drives will be considered a misapplication > of the product. Under the terms of Apple's One-Year Limited Warranty, > AppleCare Protection Plan, or other AppleCare agreement any misapplication > of the product is excluded from Apple's repair coverage. " > > So not only is the computer broken because you didn't see the fine print and > tried to play a cd in it, but you have to pay for the repairs.
