Well, that's an overly general and completely inaccurate statement. The expressed purpose of copyright law in to allow you to control how your work is used.
Uh, no. The express purpose of copyright is to define and protect the author's exclusive right to copy and distribute, and, where applicable, publicly perform the work. It was never intended that once a book was sold, the author would have any further power over its use, aside from copying and public performance, and even those powers have limitations.
The idea that a license or contract cannot limit an adherent to the contract past the limitations placed by law is absurd..
Authors derive all of their power in regards to a copyrighted work from copyright. Without it, they have nothing. With it, they are granted certain, limited rights. As I said before, copyright is like buying land with easements. They are restrictions on your power that you cannot expand upon, and you cannot force others to relinquish. Well, at least in a just world.
This case clearly confirms that Apple's limitation of OS X to Macs is reasonable.
This case confirms that the original, constitutionally-intended balance of copyright has drifted so far towards the copyright holders as to absolutely prove Jefferson's fears correct.
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Nope. Leaving aside the legality of the personal hackintosh, you have no right to distribute copies of OS X. Your first sale right only applies to the original copy that you purchased. The rest of your argument fall apart.
I would be selling my original purchased copy with the hackintosh. Or does Apple tell me the doctrine of First Sale does not apply?
But as I noted, technicalities.
Current way:
User buys hackintosh
Boots up, types in passwords, etc., for initial config of system
FreeDOS with hackintosh tools:
User buys bare PC with sealed, boxed copy of OS X from hackintosh vendor
Boots up, inserts DVD when told, goes to get lunch
Returns, types in passwords, etc., for initial config of system
This added step makes it legal? As far as OS X sales are concerned, you are reselling an unopened, boxed copy of OS X you purchased at retail, along with a generic PC, an open source operating system, and some free tools.
Thing is, the results are the same across the board: Apple got paid for a copy of OS X, and somebody is running a hackintosh.