Nice try Hank, but you need to do some more research on copyright infringement before you go "creating music" again.
What Hank created is clearly a "derivative work" as defined by US copyright law. [en.wikipedia.org]
He did not create anythingnew, instead he stood on the shoulders of giants and "altered" it enough so that he could justify it in his mind that it was "original".
Hope he has a good lawyer to at least try to soften the blow of the book that is going to be thrown at him. #riaa
Yeah, our dear friends at that other blog smelled this one coming when Alex first dropped. Its announcement was flung together, perhaps not unlike its current patent applications, to beat the Nook's reveal. [www.engadget.com]#nookvsalex
Psystar wants a summary judgment because if they go to trial and Apple wins, Apple could be awarded some pretty hefty damages, in the millions. If a judge decides it, there won't likely be any huge monetary damages.
Apple wants a summary judgement because they have the law behind them. The system is pretty much set up to protect people who own the rights to something.
If Psystar were to win, that would mean any operating system, including those inside of consoles like the Xbox or Wii or Playstation or even an OS inside a freaking camera, would be available for anyone to install on a competing product. No judge is going to let such insanity happen.
No company who bother to develop anything if they were forced to hand it over to a competitor.
Even if a judge ruled in favor of Psystar, it would likely get reversed on appeal.
@clak: "If Psystar were to win, that would mean any operating system, including those inside of consoles like the Xbox or Wii or Playstation or even an OS inside a freaking camera, would be available for anyone to install on a competing product."
Only if the company sells the OS as a separate product. Which neither MS, Nintendo, Sony, or any camera manufacturer does.
@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.:
There is no indication in the court documents I've seen that there be a stipulation that the OS be sold separately. So no, if Psystar were to win, that would be exactly what would happen.
@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Apple doesn't actually sell their operating system separately. What they DO do is sell UPGRADE licenses. They DON'T sell full licenses.
@JMS3072: Somebody should tell Apple that. There's no stipulation in their license agreement that says you must own a previous version of Mac OS to buy any particular version of OSX.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I know that Apple is a closed system and that they market themselves as a hardware company making most their profit on the hardware, not the OS and that a competitor running their OS might steal market share from them. On the other hand, there are many people who want a Mac, who can't afford to buy one, and who don't have the know how to make a hackintosh.
... come on, it's not THAT complicated to hackintosh these days! there was a time when obscure hardware combinations were a crapshoot, but there's literally lists of setups one can buy that are pretty straightforward in hackintoshing.
personally, i dont find the Mac OS as appealing as it once was compared to Windows. it used to be cut and dry, windows was a pain and mac seemed to work without any fuss. that's no longer true. and i dont think i'll ever get over the single button mouse. too many years of working on windows machines has atrophied the mac skills i grew up with. i can no longer fix a mac when something is misconfigured. they've changed so much and well, i go on, so i'll leave it at that.
Its about time Charlie Ergen gets his. I worked Briefly for DishNetwork until I found out that pays his employees the bare minimum (that is putting it mildly), and no real perks. He's a cheapskate.
@switchblade saints: I don't want to say Chuckles Ergin is a tight-ass, but rumor has it that they regularly insert charcoal briquets in his rectum and 4 hours later its passed as a diamond.
I just know tons of comments will be something like "you shouldn't trust digital devices" or "heh, should've made a backup son", but I for one am cheering for Justin there.
I mean, really, how many of us lost important personal stuff (from notes to photos) because of some faulty hardware?
I know I did, including a couple of really long posts on Gawker blogs due to clicking outside the box *AAAAHHHHH*
Backuping is good and all, but I can't be bothered to backup just about everything I make on a computer everyday... because it's plain impractical.
And most important: If we're paying for harddrives, pendrives, blank cds dvds... they are supposed to work.
Kindle's case is even worse, because they erased something they weren't supposed to, and as consequence the guy lost something he probably spent some time working on.
I already decided that, if someday I get some digital book, it'll be something either offline or impossible to have it's content erased without my permission.
Either Amazon fix that crap or I ain't buying it...
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What Hank created is clearly a "derivative work" as defined by US copyright law. [en.wikipedia.org]
He did not create anythingnew, instead he stood on the shoulders of giants and "altered" it enough so that he could justify it in his mind that it was "original".
Hope he has a good lawyer to at least try to soften the blow of the book that is going to be thrown at him. #riaa
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Apple wants a summary judgement because they have the law behind them. The system is pretty much set up to protect people who own the rights to something.
If Psystar were to win, that would mean any operating system, including those inside of consoles like the Xbox or Wii or Playstation or even an OS inside a freaking camera, would be available for anyone to install on a competing product. No judge is going to let such insanity happen.
No company who bother to develop anything if they were forced to hand it over to a competitor.
Even if a judge ruled in favor of Psystar, it would likely get reversed on appeal.
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Only if the company sells the OS as a separate product. Which neither MS, Nintendo, Sony, or any camera manufacturer does.
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There is no indication in the court documents I've seen that there be a stipulation that the OS be sold separately. So no, if Psystar were to win, that would be exactly what would happen.
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... come on, it's not THAT complicated to hackintosh these days! there was a time when obscure hardware combinations were a crapshoot, but there's literally lists of setups one can buy that are pretty straightforward in hackintoshing.
personally, i dont find the Mac OS as appealing as it once was compared to Windows. it used to be cut and dry, windows was a pain and mac seemed to work without any fuss. that's no longer true. and i dont think i'll ever get over the single button mouse. too many years of working on windows machines has atrophied the mac skills i grew up with. i can no longer fix a mac when something is misconfigured. they've changed so much and well, i go on, so i'll leave it at that.
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I mean, really, how many of us lost important personal stuff (from notes to photos) because of some faulty hardware?
I know I did, including a couple of really long posts on Gawker blogs due to clicking outside the box *AAAAHHHHH*
Backuping is good and all, but I can't be bothered to backup just about everything I make on a computer everyday... because it's plain impractical.
And most important: If we're paying for harddrives, pendrives, blank cds dvds... they are supposed to work.
Kindle's case is even worse, because they erased something they weren't supposed to, and as consequence the guy lost something he probably spent some time working on.
I already decided that, if someday I get some digital book, it'll be something either offline or impossible to have it's content erased without my permission.
Either Amazon fix that crap or I ain't buying it...