Thursday, May 4th 2006
Apple threatens SA over thread on overheating Macbooks
Apple's lawyers have dispatched a cheery little letter explaining that Something Awful could find themselves in a heap of trouble very soon if they do not remove the link to Apple's Macbook Service manual in the recent thread about overheating Macbooks, as the material is under copyright. Apparently Apple is quite angry about the publicity the embarrassing photos within have received, and has threatened to lean on SA's ISP if the material is not removed, regardless of the fact that the content in question is not actually hosted by SA.
Incidentally, a great number of other sites have linked to the contained instructional picture of thermal grease application, including Techpowerup!, but only SA has received a request to remove the picture and link. The thread in question can be found here, with Apple's legal notice on the fifth page.
Source:
The INQ
Incidentally, a great number of other sites have linked to the contained instructional picture of thermal grease application, including Techpowerup!, but only SA has received a request to remove the picture and link. The thread in question can be found here, with Apple's legal notice on the fifth page.
12 Comments on Apple threatens SA over thread on overheating Macbooks
HAHAHAHAH there embarresed...I should them for biting out of my god damn apple
Dear Ms Carroll
You seem confused,
1. A Confidentiality Agreement requires, well, an agreement entered into by both parties.
2. If you host something on a website and fail to either encrypt it or place password access to it, deep linking is fair game.
3. Holding a copyright does not preclude fair use rights especially in direct relationship to an "issue" and subsequent "news"
4. Pressuring an ISP and invoking DMCA protections over a matter such as this, is not only an abuse of the provisions but will ensure this issue will quickly be hosted and rehashed ad nauseam outside their jurisdiction.
Thank you for pumping more air into this, it was a slow news day.
Ive personally exercised my rights under fair use to make a copy of the material in the event anyone ever forgets this issue.
Ice Czaron the contrary they need to be slapped and hard
this is not protected content, that is not what copyrights are for
this is baldfaced bully tactics and they not only need to be called on them but made an example of.
They have absolutely no legal rights to protect the image now that it is directly tied into the context of this news issue
nor do they have the right to threaten a third party to suppress the issue.
off to drop some emails in some boxes :p
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